Fearie Tales by Stephen Jones

Author:Stephen Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2014-09-22T16:00:00+00:00

I do not remember escaping from that place, climbing the cliff-hewn path and returning to the resort, but my dreams have been inescapable. Perhaps I should have hurled that golden medallion into the sea, but I did not. Along with the other specimens in my collection, the thing has this unmentionable attraction all its own. And it seems possible, however much I try to resist admitting it, that there is a reason.

For now I ask myself these questions:

What involuntary impulse—what images of a weird paradise—had drawn me to that lonely bay in the first place? And what was it in the monstrous being’s tale that continues to haunt me despite that I refuse to accept its relevance? For the fact is that while I grew to adulthood in the keeping of loving, watchful parents, they were not my natural parents. Having been adopted from an orphanage, I had no knowledge of my real mother and father, though the man I had called Father had once told me that he was the brother of he who sired me. So much he told me, and then no more. But keeping in mind such an alleged relationship, then there are those coins he left me, those now sinister disks with their own fateful attraction. Did he perhaps inherit them from his brother, my real father?

Moreover, despite my nightmarish experience in that little Greek bay, I still have this love of the sea and dream of deeps I can only describe as Elysian, however alien.

But there, none of my fancies or fears may be real, and in both heart and mind I strive to convince myself that I was born of and for this earth, the ground under my feet, and not the surging ocean. At times I feel certain of this, yes—

But still I know that for the rest of my life, no matter how long, I shall continue my daily ritual of examining myself—my entire body head to toe—oh-so-very, very carefully . . .

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