(3 and 4); the rose-inflected sense of time standing still while the heroine looks up the path for something or someone and stands in the rose garden (5 and 6); the white and gold fields (7 and 8); the dark navy and purple-iris notes of images 9 and 10; and the white, gold ...
Iris Lesley parts the clouds. She walks through the trees with a purpose, though Welch wonders if she’s evernotpurposeful. As in life, so too in death. Iris Lesley crouches and touches Welch’s boots, squeezing knees through damp jeans. Her fur wrap pools around her like new fallen ...
Every morning, the melody rings that through the world, Onestory, returns certain memories to people, and at vespers the Chimes plays, a majestic piece of music that seems to remove the memories of the day. For people in Sebastian’s world, memories, stories, and words are distrusted, ...
Founded in 762 as Madinat al-Salam, or the City of Peace, Baghdad was the largest city in the world by the mid-ninth century, with anestimated populationof more than one million. The urban core was built in concentric rings around the caliph’s palace, with its hi...
After the success of Peter Jackson’sLord of the Ringsadaptations, it was impossible not to approach his interpretation of J.R.R. Tolkien’sThe Hobbitwith high anticipation. When Jackson announced thatThe Hobbit— a single volume much shorter than theLOTRsaga — would also be ...
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She drew the curtain aside for him with a slight clatter of wooden rings. “Oh, but I will have one more look,” thought Albinus miserably. It seemed to him that her lips twitched a little. She let the curtain fall. Albinus stepped into a blood-red puddle; the snow was melting, ...
It was typical of the way people around here reacted when they had to meet Kaitlyn's eyes. No one else had eyes like Kaitlyn. They were smoky blue, and at the outside of each iris, as well as in the middle, were darker rings. Her father said they were beautiful and that Kaitlyn ...