Faery Tale

The Temple Bells by Hazel Marcus Ong (fantasy/faery tale)
       Chung-shen wants more than anything to hear the mythic monks' bells, heard only by those who truly listen. His life grows magical in search of them, with the silver-skinned Jiang Yue from the sea; but will that be enough, if he never hears the bells? A faery tale/fable written with melodic prose.

After the Lake by A. C. Wise (faery tale/horror)
      Despite her grandmother's comforting words, Rue has bad dreams: dreams that seem more real than real. A story of too-still lakes, bloody stones, horrific images, and a vindictive ghost, told with delicate poignancy.

The Dragon's Breath Seed by Eugie Foster (faery tale)
       The poor baker, Shen, loves his daughter more than anything in the world - and when illness comes, he does not hesitate to give all he has to save her. A journey to find the cure of the Dragon's Breath seed results in a series of supernatural encounters in this delicate Chinese faerytale.

Diminishing Returns by Joshua Abrams (faery tale)
      Everyone knows about the magic beans that grew into towering vines - but what of Jack's starving neighbors? In a land beaten by drought, magic can be a dangerous thing, and friends and neighbors even more so.

A Man Needs a Reason by Melissa Douglas (faery tale)
      Some men are born to do heroic things: defend the world, change it, even save it. Others are just born to bloody it. A dark twist on a Scottish faery tale.

Absence by Gwen Masters (faery tale/romance)
      Georgia marries with hope of love and happiness; she finds a lie and heartbreak instead. A story filled with lush prose and haunting images.

The Road to Ever After by J.C. Runolfson (faery tale)
      What is a happy ending? The coachman has watched dozens of young girls find their endings in glass slippers and white gowns: some triumphant with their princes, others coming back too early, a few ending in a hangman's noose. But as the coachman's night wanders on, the question become insistent: where is her happy ending?

Ivory Tower by Philip Hamm (modern faery tale)
      What is the perfect life? Michael Hyde seems to have found it living in a faery-tale ivory tower, complete with satellite dish, library, and the ultimate view - at least until a visiting motorcyclist causes him to consider something different.

The Tale of the Scorpion Prince by JoSelle Vanderhooft (fantasy/faery tale)
      Blasted by sand, eroded by time, detested by gods. In this powerful retelling of the myth of Prometheus, a forsaken man remembers the birth of a new era - and the loss of an old intimacy.

As It Happens In Such Stories by Joshua Abrams (faery tale/fable)
      Everyone wants a happy ending, particularly the heroine of the story. This faery tale woman tries to improve of her life even as circumstances demand mediocrity, or the end of her life itself.

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