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A Prince called Desire seeks a bride in warmer lands.

A prince learns how to have empathy with the help of a fairy and a ring.

A princess is stolen from her castle but meets a wonderful sheep.

A woman loves her husband, who is a pig, and follows him to the ends of the earth.

These things do not happen to the dead, she told herself.

That first night in the Lodge, I had the strangest dream, though I didn’t seem to be asleep. A weight was pinning me down, as if a creature were crouching on my chest.

It was eerie sometimes, how a room filled with talking people would quiet up when he spoke. I felt like I was that room full of people then.

The target, the target. I had little to go on.

If there was anyone in the world who wasn’t cursed, it was Sam.

The Rasite ship sprawled ten times the size of the little cruiser that Ambros had named Starlight.

Jeannette treasured the moment when television sets died, computers shut down, and refrigerators stopped refrigerating...

It was as if she had stepped into another world.