Free online fiction from tor.com. Presenting “Apologue,” a story by James Morrow reprinted for Tor.com’s Monster Mash. Written in response to 9/11, “Apologue,” reacts to the events through the perspective of three classic movie monsters. The results are perhaps not what one would expect from such earth-shaking creatures. This story was published as the coda to the September 11th memorious issue of The New York Review of Science Fiction.