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In the short, lyrical story “Tainaron,” another unnamed narrator wanders through the eponymous city, which is populated by insects.

The narrator is guided by a friend, whom she knows as Longhorn, and as she encounters the city’s various denizens, she begins to reminisce about her life before she came to Tainaron.

This sense of mingled strangeness and recognition reverberates through all of Krohn's work, most clearly in "Tainaron: Mail From Another City."

Told that there is no crematorium in Tainaron, she insists on knowing what happens to the rest of the bodies.

The greater part of the land was occupied by 'Romaioi'— normal, loyal, Christian subjects of the empire—but in the hilly country between Eurotas, Taygetos, and the sea, two Slavonic tribes still maintained themselves in defiant savagery and worshipped their Slavonic gods, while beyond them the peninsula of Tainaron, now known as Maina, sheltered communities which still clung to the pagan name of Hellene and knew no other gods but Zeus, Athena, and Apollo.