ISBN |
9781481492164 (paperback) |
Name |
Howard, Kat author. |
Uniform title |
Short stories. Selections |
Title |
A cathedral of myth and bone / stories by Kat Howard. |
Edition |
Saga Press trade paperback edition. |
Published |
New York : Saga Press, 2019. |
©2018 |
Description |
xiii, 352 pages ; 21 cm. |
Contents |
A life in fictions -- The saint of the sidewalks -- Maiden, hunter, beast -- Once, future -- Translatio Corporis -- Dreaming like a ghost -- Murdered sleep -- The speaking bone -- Those are pearls -- All of our past places -- Saints' tide -- Painted birds and shivered bones -- Returned -- The calendar of saints -- The green knight's wife -- Breaking the frame. |
Summary |
Contains sixteen short fantasy stories. |
In these sixteen exquisite stories Kat Howard deftly weaves in and out of the countries of myth and hagiography to write the lives of women untold and unexplored. A woman being written into her boyfriend's fiction is at first flattered to be his muse, but then finds her real life literally consumed and overtaken by his. A desperate young woman makes a prayer to the Saint of Sidewalks, but the miracle she receives isn't what she expected. A painter spies a naked man, crouched by the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, transform into a beautiful white bird and decides to paint him, and becomes involved in his curse. Jeanne, a duellist and a sacred blade for God and Her holy saints, finds that the price of truth is always blood. And in the novella "Once, Future" Howard reimagines the Arthurian romance on a modern college campus as a story that is told, and told again, until the ending is right. |
Subjects |
College students -- Fiction |
Women -- Fiction |
Reality -- Fiction |
Blessing and cursing -- Fiction |
Saints -- Fiction |
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction |
Spiritualism -- Fiction |
Genre |
Fantasy fiction |
Magic realist fiction |
Short stories |
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