Lasgaleth had seldom been out at sea, and never on such a grand and refined vessel as the Morning Sailor. Though finding sleep on a rocking hammock in the hold with all the creaking, scraping and screeching was nigh impossible at first, the rest of the day was pleasant enough. Late in the morning of the …
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Why were they called the Singing Mountains? Was it for the western birds, whose song filled the wide expanse from the Kahadlakh to the shores of the Björgrin peninsula? Was it for the east wind, caught up in currents which weaved to and fro through the green highland in composition? Or was it for another …
“In this pitiable condition I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR” These words spoken by Edgar Allan Poe’s memorable character Roderick Usher in “The Fall of the House of Usher” represent a deep and tragic truth …
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