An unexpected shift in tectonic plates a thousand miles off the coast of Cornwall caused a series of ancient caves to open again to the sun for the first time in 1200 years. Within them were found the burial chamber of an ancient royal family. And within that crypt was a library of scrolls...

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Long ago, there lived a saint. And it was said that his smile could calm storms at sea and the touch of his left hand heal the cruelest wounds of war, while the touch of his right hand could heal the cruelest infirmities of birth...

It began, as things often do, with love. Ever new love is a new beginning. Its own spring, bringing up sprouts of life in defiance of whatever else the world may be doing...

One day, a young girl left her house and went to school. And came back to an entirely different family...

It came to be that the last dragon, wise and powerful, felt her claws grow tender and her wings grow stiff, and felt a sharp pain in her heart. Peering through the tides of time, she foresaw her own death and the extinction of her race...

Once, there was a terrible and cruel dragon who reeked of smoke and lived inside a mountain. There he slept upon his horde, a vast cavern filled with gold, and jewels, and precious artifacts stolen from the great cities and ships of the world...

She dropped out of her classical music program and abandoned her scholarship to travel to Europe and be an au pair. Because seeing the world seemed like a better life than spending long days in practice rooms the size of a closet...

Once there was a species of animal that looked up at the stars and tried to find the rules governing them. At first, because it could not see very far, the species made rules that governed nine planets and a few hundred stars...

Sitting in a cafe, a young man on a first date tries to impress the woman he fears is too beautiful for him by performing a card trick. It fails. All three times. And the expression on her face burns itself into his hear, where it will stink of char and fear. What he does not know is that the three cards he pulled by accident are the most important in her life...

Once, there was a great tower surrounded by a wall of sharp thistles in which a gentle princess was kept prisoner. A dragon too, lived within the wall. Its massive body wrapped around the tower, guarding it from any who approached. And there were many...