This chapter investigates the contribution that small stories make to ethnographies of place through a reflection on trajectories and circulation of tellings. The data presented concern small stories recorded by a participant in Sandton, a financial district in Johannesburg, South Africa. The chapter discusses the relationship between ethnography and small stories and revisits the heuristic ‘ways of telling - sites - tellers’. This heuristic is then adopted to investigate two examples of small storying that involve a change in participation framework. In the first example, told during a commute from home to Sandton Central, the sequencing and positioning of the story are dependent on interlocutor movement, providing a superposition of tale-world and site. In the second example, told at the participant’s place of employment, the embedding of characters, events and dialogue is more accomplished and juxtaposes tale-world and professional environment. The closing discussion draws out the significance of small stories for ethnography. Small stories contribute transversal and practice-orientated genres, superposition of telling and tale, contingent identity work and the possibility of fluid rather than structural analyses.