Praise

“This is an eclectic and fascination collection of stories. It ranged through real and imagined history so that there were stories where I felt myself on familiar ground, and others where every word was a learning experience for me.”

Lorraine W.

“Because this anthology is a many-splendored thing it would go without saying that it is resonant on myriad levels. You will find something, or someone, here to love.”

Knicky Laurelle

“What have you to offer me, poised on the edge of my life?”

Speaking the Girls, Karen Ginnane

“Soon, the battlefield was a mass of men, rippling, swelling and contracting like a flock of starlings in the early evening.”

Parchment, Matthew Willis

“That very hardest time of day in the hour after sunset when the whole world is tipped towards what it has lost and the sky is not yet done with bleeding.”

Vasilisa, Lorraine Wilson

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About the book

‘It started with the Zhar-ptitsa, the Firebird, as these things must. No, let us say it started again with the Firebird.’

A group of researchers open a door in the present day that has been closed for centuries – and should have stayed that way. In 1840s Ireland, starving children face desperate measures to avoid the crisis consuming the land. A visitor to 19th Century Japan learns what it takes to fan love to life. A girl struggles to rise above the walls that surround her in Georgian England. In 7th Century Britain, a scribe translates the true value of a legend. Fourteen surprising, moving and compelling tales, weaving the next steps in the telling of famous events and stories from Greek myth to English folktale, via fairy tales and real historical events.

The second anthology by The Random Writers.

Books by Karen

About the author

Karen self-published ahead of the curve at the age of ten in her home town of Perth in Western Australia.