I had come to the end of the long road of my life. My travels ended in Unai. I was so weary and footsore, I could not take another step. I knocked on the door of a house that stood close to the river where the wisteria grew on a trellis and reached down into the...
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Boy in a Haunted Temple
I set off into the world in search of an adventure. I didn’t want to return until I had done some great deed that made my name famous. For a long time, I met nothing but a wild mountain, half-covered in dense forest. I made my way over huge rocks, and crossed wide,...
Youngest Dancing Princess
I had a feeling that someone was following me. I could feel his breath on my neck. Then my dress caught on something. “Who’s that?” I cried, turning around. “Who’s holding my dress?” “Don’t be stupid,” hissed my older sister who was going down the steps ahead of me....
Princess Who Rides a Lion
My brother went hunting one day and didn’t return. I nearly wept myself blind! Then, when I could no longer stand it, I went out into the forest to search for him. After I had gone a long way, I became tired. I had to find a place to rest. I looked around and what did...
Tired Old Griffin
I live by the Red Sea, and I've had a peaceful life over the last couple of centuries. Recently, however, my peace has been disturbed by a battle that has been raging between a lion and a dragon. They are royals, of course. The lion is a prince, and the dragon is a...
Abeille Meeting the Little People
When Youri and I were children, we decided to go up the mountain and climb to the lake where the undines lived. It was hard going, and I became hobbled by a stone in my shoe. At last, I grew too weary to climb on, and, besides, it was getting dark. I lay down on a...
North Wind
When the young girl approached my dwelling, riding on the South Wind, they felt my cold gusts long before they aririved. “What do you want?” I roared from afar, freezing them with my blasts. The South Wind said: “It is I, and this is she who is meant to be with the...
Cinderwench
My stepsisters have taken my room and now I live in a drafty garret, and I sleep on a straw bed. My stepmother calls me Cinderwench and so do her daughters, although the youngest, who is not quite as mean, calls me Cinderella. I haven’t eaten much for days. I’m not...
Beauty’s Father
I have lost everything. I have even lost hope. I spent a miserable night crouched in the hollow of a tree while the storm raged around me. The howling wolves kept me awake all night, not to mention the howling voices in my mind. I have nothing to give my children....
Weary Old Fairy Selnozoura
Everything is messed up, absolutely everything. I never should have taken those young lovers to the island. I'd forgotten that the waters had been poisoned by that silly, blundering fairy Dindonette. I wasn't thinking when I took them in my vessel. We just zipped off...
Little Kitchenmaid
Everyone is asking if the legendary nightingale in the book actually exists. They think the singer is the writer's invention, but I know better. I hear the nightingale singing in the woods every day, He is there when I am taking meals home to my sick mother, and he is...