title: Saffron And Brimstone: Strange Stories
author:  Elizabeth Hand 
description: Enthusiasts for Hand's sensuously descriptive brand of literary fantasy are in for a treat with her latest collection of short fiction. Aptly subtitled "strange stories," the eight superbly crafted tales share Hand's predilection for probing the translucent borderline between magic and reality. A young lepidopterist spends a summer volunteering at London's Regent's Park Zoo and discovers a talent for transforming her lovers into rare butterfly specimens. The tattoo-artist daughter of a children's book writer finds a tarot deck once owned by a colleague of her famous mother and watches her destiny become inexplicably intertwined with the cards. In a separate section entitled "The Lost Domain," Hand offers four contemplative tales about transient relationships that she links by using poignant, recurring themes: the fragility of intimacy, the insidious unraveling of civilization following 9/11, the influence of Greek myth on modern love. Her beautifully nuanced, often disquieting style should inspire poets as well as lay down the gauntlet to colleagues also reaching for expressive heights in contemporary fantasy. <i>Carl Hays</i><br /><i>Copyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved</i>
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  # Where the Sabots Clatter Again
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Katherine Shortall
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
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  THE BRIDE OF NOYON.
  
  
  LITTLE GRAINS OF SAND
  
  
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  [Illustration: Where the Sabots Clatter Again by Katherine Shortall]
  
  
  [Illustration: Katherine Shortall (autograph), December 1921]
  
  
  _The Radcliffe Unit in France collaborated with the French Red
  
  
  Cross in its work of reconstruction after the Armistice. It was as a
  
  
  member of this unit and as chauffeuse in the devastated regions that
  
  
  the writer received the impressions set forth in these sketches._
  
  
  
  
  
  Where the Sabots Clatter Again
  
  
  by Katherine Shortall
  
  
  [Illustration: street scene]
  
  
  Ralph Fletcher Seymour Publisher 410 S. Michigan Avenue Chicago
  
  
  PUBLISHED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RADCLIFFE COLLEGE ENDOWMENT FUND IN
  
  
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