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The South has long been home to unique and enduring tales. Too often, these fables are obscured by the region's colourful past. It is rare that an author touches on such a tender history and brings forth a collection so rewarding and poignant. James Everett Kibler has captured the essence of... read more
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“It has long been a fact that gold in the sun is far brighter than gold in the tomb of a bank’s vaulted dark cells, and that stars seen of a winter cold night through bare limbs of the roof tree of home are far brighter than stars on a chart on a digital screen, or the silver of thirty strewn coins, thrown in the pitch-black of night.”
James Everett Kibler
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Table of Contents
Prelude: The Wild Bees of Truth
I. The Night Her Portrait Sang
II. Da
III. Dave
IV. Shone and the Whispering Bridge
V. Sad Conacher at Gordon's Mill
VI. Quar
VII. Singin' Billy, the Song Catcher
VIII. A Perfect Day for Tyger Fish
IX. The Wee One's Alphabet Blocks
X. Spilt Milk
XI. How Jakob Emig Encountered Old Scratch
XII. The Magnolia Fay
XIII. The Revenge of the Great House
XIV. Dolphus and the Balking Mule
XV. The Fool Killer: A Fable for Academics
XVI. The Miller's Cat: A Story in Which Just Nothing Happens a-Tall
XVII. Croton Oil
XVIII. Fair Grace by the Eddying Pool
XIX. Spindleshanks at Ballylee
XX. The Cure
XXI. Sídhe and Ingus
XXII. Stories for Christmas, or Willows Like Wands
XXIII. The Golden Cup and Bowl
XXIV. Amalthea's Horn
XXV. Goat Island, a Tale from the Land
XXVI. Roses in Snow
XXVII. Transistorized Resurrection
XXVIII. A Knight of the Sheep
XXIX. The Orangatan
L'Envoi: The Rose of Far-Sought Beauty
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- James E. Kibler (Author)
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