He was not ready to lose her in either world, so he tricked the stars and conspired against the Universe. He loved her in life - he swept her into a portal and loved her in death, and then he sent her back to her world as he continued to linger in his - between life and between death. They told her it was all in her mind. They said that her memories were never real. They locked her away until he found a way back, to her world.

The Princess and the Puppy Maze, One Moment in the Land of Dreams, is a fairy tale story of a selfish and uncaring young Princess who demands that all who know her, love her and prove their love to her before she considers them worthy of her love. One day she receives a wolf puppy from her parents, the King and the Queen, and sets three difficult tasks for the puppy to conquer if he wishes for her to love him.

He knows that life is precious. He knows this like he knows that water is wet and that stars are distant-he's not sure how he knows, but he knows as he knows that life is not a given.But is also wonderful. Especially on nights like this. Is also hungry. Is also cold. Is also lonely. But magnificent. Is sometimes short, like his mother's. Is sometimes long, like his father's. Is sometimes always, like his own, tonight.Is sometimes vast and spectacular.Is...

Long, long ago, deep in the Burmese jungle-on the long eastern shore of what was to be called Lake Indawgyi but which was then named for Ei-vu, the spirit of long, sweet water-there lived two tribes:The Mera, and the Lasi.Their lands, as large as any among the scattered jungle peoples of their time, with the long lake as their western borders, also bordered each other, Lasi's to Mera's north and Mera's to Lasi's south.The Lasi and the Mera, for as...

The warm March sun had shone all day. Although the air remained frigid in the many shadows, out in the open the surface snow was now melting in its glare. Then, as commonly happens in early spring this far north, when the sun began to set and the shadows to grow longer across the snowy field, the partially melted snow surface froze and soon the entire meadow was covered by a crust of icy snow thick enough in places to support a walking man, thick...

The Lady of the Sorrows embarks on a perilous quest in a wild realm of magic and malevolence to reunite with her enigmatic lover and end a terrible war To save her loved ones from catastrophe, the Lady of the Sorrows urgently seeks to uncover the secrets of her past. Yet those mysteries, once revealed, will be more extraordinary and harrowing than she could have imagined. The lady journeys to the terrible fortress of the Raven Prince in Evernight,...

These tales, originally shared for the amusement of friends and later published due to their popularity, capture the essence of Irish folklore and imagination. Lover's work is characterized by the authentic reproduction of the peasants' narrative style, complete with their digressions, distinctive expressions, and unique pronunciations. From humorous episodes to deeply reverential exclamations, each story in this collection reflects the lively...

These three short stories were each inspired--in very different ways--by the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. In "The Promise of Roses," the son of a woolen mill owner sets out every morning with a shovel and a bag of salt to destroy the roses threatening to snag the fleeces of his father's sheep. In "Spinning," a minor prince from a small European country nobody has ever heard of makes his way through the rose bushes to an ancient castle where a princess...

In a world where the strong prey on the weak, Li Fan, who has traveled to a different world, finds himself in a body that is the most useless and incapable of cultivation. Although this body once had a powerful family background, its inability to cultivate led to a violent temper, frequently bullying others until it met an untimely death in an accident, at which point Li Fan took over by a twist of fate.However, fortune favors the bold, and Li Fan...

For anyone who grew up listening to the old folktales told by their mothers and grandmothers and thought: there must be more to this story… Featuring four Korean feminist writers, thinkers, artists, and educators, Korean Folktales: Four Feminist Retellings reimagines some of Korea's oldest narratives in powerful and innovative ways, centering the stories of intrepid and intelligent women who have, for too long, been relegated to the role of folktales'...