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For the Ai-Naidar, a species of slim, gracile aliens, caste and tradition are not the shackles that imprison the spirit but the silences that make sense of the music of their lives. The Aphorisms of Kherishdar collects 25 short tales about what it is to have an Ai-Naidari soul: to find comfort in tradition, law and structure; to revere interdependence . . .
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Things that crawl in the shadows, spirits of unsettled dead, arcane mysteries in our current age . . . Fiction, Fantasy, Imagination. Each person can be reborn at least once in his own mind. Each one of us can close his eyes and picture himself as something different, finding in the myths the courage to maintain his stability in the pressing life that encircles . . .
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In Kherishdar, when a person commits a crime, they become their sin. . . . Suicide. Rape. Child Abuse. Addiction. Twenty-five crimes. Twenty-five stories. Twenty-five narrators . . . and one minister over them all, to judge, convict and Correct the faulty: the priest who serves Shame. This companion volume to The Aphorisms of Kherishdar explores the wayward and their journey back to society, offering . . .
come sit down with me I will serve you tea and cheese let us eat and talk
the world moves quickly we forget beautiful things because we see not
fine morning roses the curve of moon clouds at night bright twinkle of [more . . .]
I was extremely intrigued (and excited) about the premise of these stories: A culture where prescribed social interactions and a caste system are healthy social dynamics. I’ve always been fascinated by caste worlds in fiction, from the Dragonriders of Pern to the Black Jewels Trilogy, where everyone has an intrinsic place in the social order and a sense of belonging [more . . .]