A/N: I originally left these as a comment in cereta's journal, where she asked what essays characters would write if asked to write the "significant life event/person" essay that so many students are made to write.

1. The Queen.Aerin-sol's tutor asked her to write about a significant person in her life, once. Aerin wrote the most brutal indictment of ( Read more... )

Just so you know, the following post contains spoilers for: a whole bunch of Robin McKinley's books, including but possibly not limited to: The Blue Sword, The Hero and the Crown, and Deerskin. It also contains spoilers for Charles Perrault's fairytale "Donkeyskin", on which Deerskin is based.

So, I read Deerskin recently. I'd been both saving ( Read more... )

"The Outlander queen will betray us," Corlath said, his voice snarled and ugly, twisted in on itself. His eyes were bright yellow with fury. "That is what they do. That is what they know ( Read more... )