Variations on a Theme of Pomegranates

A queen faces death with a familiar ghosts beside her. A soldier becomes what he has spent his entire life running from. A fisherman's son turns the tables on a false prophet. A storyteller travels to the lands of the dead to fulfill a final promise. A hunter traps strange prey, and finds herself snared in turn. And a sorceress becomes the protector of her family's dead. These six stories blend mythology, fairytale, poetry, and tragedy to explore the ways we live, die, and seek immortality ...