The first little story called "When It Rains It Rains a River." It tells the story of playing in the rain and how the brothers love it and the mud. Its like its a part of them, singing, eating, fishing, running, drumming.  That's the scene that they make. Then it tells the story of the how they make girls out of the mud. Each body part especially the knees are mad of mud and they said this because they always have the boys kneeling on their knees. As the night approaches they come alive and wake up and stare into the eyes of the boys. Now the girls are sisters so the story now has sisters that are sisters and brothers that are brothers. Its a little love story to me of the imagination of little boys and the mud girls they created.
 The singing fish is a continuing of brothers and this cave that is the body of a sound asleep girl. They see a lot of stuff going on inside of this cave "girl". there's words and carvings inside of this cave on the walls. they make out stick figures and words but not words they couldn't tell exactly what it was. then the next story tells about how these brothers get in trouble because of what they mothers told them. to not get muddy and they did anyways.
Then the lasts stories were fiction so they were real and told about a real life event or whatever. They were much longer than the short stories and they had titles that pertained to something that was in the story. for example one title was a specific date and places that were real. its called August 25th 1983. Its about a room, a dream and all that and it is kind of confusing. All the stories were about real stuff and the last story was called "The Fifth Story" and its about cockroaches and how to kill them. Very disturbing. It made me itch. Who in they right mind would want to tell us about this. UGH it really didn't have anything to do with what they other stories were about.