Beagle, Peter S. (ed.) - The Unicorn Anthology / Бигл, Питер С. (ред.) - Антология Единорог [2019, EPUB, ENG]

The Magical Properties of Unicorn Ivory short story by Carlos Hernandez The Brew short story by Karen Joy Fowler Falling Off the Unicorn short story by David D. Levine and Sara A. Mueller A Hunter's Ode to His Bait short story by Carrie Vaughn Ghost Town short story by Jack C. Haldeman, II A Thousand Flowers novelette by Margo Lanagan The Maltese Unicorn novelette by Caitlín R. Kiernan Stampede of Light short story by Marina Fitch The Highest Justice short story by Garth Nix The Lion and the Unicorn short story by A. C. Wise Survivor short story by Dave Smeds Homeward Bound short story by Bruce Coville Unicorn Triangle short story by Patricia A. McKillip My Son Heydari and the Karkadann short story by Peter S. Beagle The Transfigured Hart short story by Jane Yolen Unicorn Series poem by Nancy Springer

I GET FLASHBACKS NOW AND THEN. What it was like. Then. Before. The moonlight a path of diamonds and ivory, suspended between the mist of trees whose names I knew, every one of them, as well as who had dropped what nut that made this tree, that meant this name. My watching eyes as dark as night, my pelt as sleek and perfect as the moon at full, my hooves and spiraling horn forged of that dream, that glittering. All the scents and secret whisperings: water, brambles opening flowers, sharpening thorns, bracken crumbling oh so slowly, a sift, a shift of a splinter of wood, a break of driest leaf spending a timeless moment edging apart, resettling itself like a dreamer fitting itself into sleep, into earth. The sound of the wings of the Luna moth fluttering toward that white fire, spellbound by the moon. Then. I almost remember my name. . . .