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Misery

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It is said that Misery loves company, and I do! That's the very reason I befriended a poor peasant. I made him sell everything he had, little by little, so that we could go out and get drunk. Now he's got nothing left to sell. Is he miserable? Not enough, to my...

King Who Wants to Glimpse Paradise

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I always found it difficult to believe what I could not see. One day, in the prime of my youth, I was out hunting when I came upon a fakeer reading the Koran. He was sitting on a little bedstead in front of a cave in a lonely place on the mountain. He had an old,...

Grethari the Orphaned Prince

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After we fought the shark, Geirlaug sprinkled some white powder over us, and the next thing I knew we were outside the palace of my parents. I hadn't been there since I was a tiny child, but I remembered the surroundings. Geirlaug told me not to drink anything until I...

A Window in the Beast’s Castle

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I'm not a window to the outside world, though I may look like a window. I'm sealed off to the outside. I'm simply a window of entertainment, made for no other purpose than to amuse and distract a lonely girl. There are seven of us in all in the entertainment room. We...

Apple of Forgetfulness

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"Watch out for me, I'm poisoned!" I cry as I am rolled across the ground. But my cries are in vain. The prince picks me up, bites into me, and forgets everything he loves, and everything he is here to do. The Apple of Forgetfulness, The Mastermaid, Blue Fairy Book....

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