Category: Short Stories

The willow weaver, and seven other tales

THE SAINT AND THE OUTLAW 1. THE SAINT AND THE OUTLAW 2. THE PRINCE AND THE WATER GATES 3. LOX 4. THE DREAM GARDEN 5. THE WAY OF THE HERB GATHERER 6. THE LAND OF MARVELLOUS NIGHT 7. THE FOOL AND THE FOLK OF PEACE 8. THE SINNER’S REQUIEM 9. THE PREACHER 10. THE TELLER OF DROLLS...

Chapters

1. Part 1

THE SAINT AND THE OUTLAW 1. THE SAINT AND THE OUTLAW 2. THE PRINCE AND THE WATER GATES 3. LOX 4. THE DREAM GARDEN 5. THE WAY OF THE HERB GATHERER 6. THE LAND OF MARVELLOUS NIGHT...

2. Part 2

“Be wiser, child,” she said. “My words are harsh, my thought is gentle towards you. I said I, the Willow-weaver, would be your mother to-night. What do you see from my hut door,...

3. Part 3

But Perry spoke in vain. March was an obstinate thick-headed man, and he was very angry indeed. The vials of his righteous wrath descended on the luckless seer, who was utterly...

4. Part 4

And Brother Gorlois, albeit dull of wit, saw he was living through the pain and loneliness of the past night. Brother Gorlois did not ask the old monk’s pardon; he did not know...

5. Part 5

A week later the gardener of a well-to-do literary man, a minor poet, received a shock. Within his master’s grounds was a little clump of beech trees; they grew far away from Fl...

6. Part 6

We are in Thee who art strength: Give us Thy strength! We are in Thee who art love: Give us Thy love! We are in Thee who art power: Give us Thy power! We are in Thee who art pea...

7. Part 7

“You speak of these things as though they were outer contracts or a mental attitude,” said the priest, “whereas they are real spiritual forces, definite powers of the unseen. I...

8. Part 8

“When we who guard the Songs of the Glamour will that they shall be sung, they are sung. They ring through the world, though none know whence they sound, nor the manner of their...