For more stories and story tellers that are not about moving through time*, but more about a form of exploration:

Stephen Crane

Hans Christian Andersen

Jorge Luis Borges and three short texts of his I propose

Italo Calvino

more links coming soon, when I am done reading what's on the Project Gutenberg site...

*The poem gains in greatness if we sense that it is the expresssion of a desire, a longing, rather than the narration of an event. Borges