All Egypt is celebrating, for Ramses II has been named Prince Regent. At the celebration feast, two rival nomarchs—rulers of wealthy provinces—steal away, aroused by the dance of a sacred eunuch. These nomarchs share a shameful past, and in the dark, aided by fine wine, they take out their lust upon each other...
I could smell her body from across the raging waters: her fearful heart pumping rich sweet blood; the bitter odour of a […]
I Up the mountain Brown grasses rustle at my feet Until they bend beneath the lusciousness of snow […]
They hung her from the cliff-yawning walls, in a metal cage. If she had been a prisoner of war, they would have […]
Outside on the cliffs, the avalanche had buried the besieging army. Inside the castle, the hero let the snow-maidens strip him […]
