Fantasy

On the sixth glad day they longed for the beggar who had no hands. No sooner had they expressed their wish than he appeared, saying “Here I am!” just as…

There is a train terminal beneath the vast halls and escalator-riddled chambers of the grand hotel. He runs down one last flight of marble steps and hurries onto a train.…

The God of the Sea keeps our stories. When their time comes, he helps us find our way through them, even if we don’t want to remember. Stories are like…

The room in which I found myself was suffocated in decay. Its corners were blurred with concretions of dust and broken shards, or filthy black cobwebs saturated with

As their hearts began to break with longing, a voice called out, Here I am. I’ve brought you as your wedding present the blessing that I promised you, that you…

Visitors are naturally curious about Sam Stemrunners. They’re cheerful, helpful, melodic, and easy to find. They are typically heard first from afar, whistling or singing one of their many vocational…

Armitage lit a cigarette as he surveyed the street. It looked like a normal residential road, albeit one that got more than its fair share of traffic. Terraced houses lined…

Every morning before dawn Spinner, Giver, and Cutter harvested star thread. They’d inspect the nets stretched across their fields for the snarls that had fallen during the night and gather…

Prologue I will tell you the secret of human happiness . . . Once upon a time there was a king who had one son, and he wanted to hand…