Mythology & Folk Tales
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-15 | Author:Rachel Aaron

“You know this is a terrible plan,” Gin growled. “Yes,” Miranda said, pulling the long tunic dress over her head. “You’ve told me so every ten minutes since sunrise.” They ...
( Category: Fantasy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-15 | Author:Rachel Aaron

CHAPTER 13 The crowd in front of the citadel was thinning, the conscripts getting their orders from a group of guards in full uniform at the gate and moving off ...
( Category: Epic March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-22 | Author:Yiyun Li

LUO ARRIVED TWO days before the appointment for the in vitro fertilization. When he saw Yilan waiting at the railway station, he came close and hugged her, a Western gesture ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-07-01 | Author:Nancy Madore

Mirror on the Wall Once upon a time, in a kingdom known far and wide for its beautiful women, there lived a sorcerer who fell in love with one of ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-07-13 | Author:Valente, Catherynne M. [Valente, Catherynne M.]

THE EMPEROR OF TSUKAYAMA PARK When first the word was spoken, I heard: Tsuki-yama—Lord Moon. And for me, the moon settled onto a dais, with sixteen-pointed chrysanthemums in his phosphor-hands, ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-12 | Author:Kristina Wright

Alex served a fine dinner, too: grilled salmon, a salad of baby lettuces, a cabernet from a boutique winery owned by a friend, another ex-lawyer who’d followed his dreams. Slightly ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-05-22 | Author:J.R.R. Tolkien

when shining like the moon, with shrouds of pearl, with sails of samite, and the silver stars on her blue banner embroidered white in glittering gems, that galleon was thrust ...
( Category: Epic March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1997-10-31 | Author:Fagles, Robert & Homer & Knox, Bernard [Fagles, Robert]

So he grieved but I tried to lend him heart: ‘About noble Peleus I can tell you nothing, 576 but about your own dear son, Neoptolemus, I can report the ...
( Category: Epic March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-05-08 | Author:Keith Donohue

I did not confess to Smaolach the reason for my agitation. Speck had all but abandoned our friendship, withdrawing into some hard and lonesome core. Even after we made the ...
( Category: Paranormal & Urban March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-03-31 | Author:Mason, Zachary [Mason, Zachary]

*In the eighteenth century B.C. there was a thriving cult of the goddess Quickness, known for virginity, quick thinking, harsh laughter and an association with owls. Her particular enemy was ...
( Category: Fairy Tales March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Hamilton, Laurell K. & Galenorn, Yasmine & Liu, Marjorie M. & Shinn, Sharon [Hamilton, Laurell K.]

4 Sally danced that night. It was not the first time she had ever danced, but it was the first beyond the watchful eye of home, in a place where ...
( Category: Paranormal & Urban March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-11-16 | Author:George R. R. Martin; Gardner Dozois

IT HAD BEEN three years. Maybe I expected snakes instead of vines, or razor blades in place of leaves, but everything that touched me was as it should be: a ...
( Category: Ancient World March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-29 | Author:Guy Gavriel Kay

the high threshold, heard a sound behind her of gravel sliding. Was turning to see, when the blow fell on the base of her skull and knocked her sprawling to ...
( Category: Epic March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1962-01-01 | Author:Thomas Bulfinch; Charles Martin

Spenser introduces Sir Tristram in his Faery Queene. In Book VI., Canto ii., Sir Calidore encounters in the forest a young hunter, whom he thus describes:— “Him steadfastly he marked, ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-06-12 | Author:Guy Gavriel Kay

CHAPTER 9 That same day, as the Dwarves of the twin mountains prepared for the judgment of their Lake, Gereint the shaman, cross-legged on the mat in his dark house, ...
( Category: Epic March 25,2014 )