Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Bride of the Dark One
    Bride of the Dark One
    Bride of the Dark One
    Ebook30 pages21 minutes

    Bride of the Dark One

    By Florence Verbell Brown

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    The outcasts; the hunted of all the brighter worlds, crowded onto Yaroto. But even here was there salvation for Ransome, the jinx-scarred acolyte, when tonight was the night of Bani-tai ... the night of expiation by the photo-memoried priests of dark Darion?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Classics
    Release dateMay 16, 2014
    ISBN9781633550698
    Bride of the Dark One

    Read more from Florence Verbell Brown

    Related to Bride of the Dark One

    Related ebooks

    Classics For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Hook, Line And Sinker

      Oct 18, 2018

      Hook, Line And Sinker
      4 min read

    • Article

      Commonplace Book

      Jun 1, 2022

      Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June’s long days, and wild strawberries, drops of rosé wine. The nettles that methodically overgrow the abandoned homesteads of exiles. —Adam Zagajewski, “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” tr. by Clare C

      4 min read

    • Article

      Berber Vodka

      Sep 10, 2021

      Berber Vodka
      3 min read

    • Article

      Five Plague Octets

      May 1, 2022

      The wolf plans to live with the lamb, the leopardto lie with the goat. It’s written in stoneand onion skin. The lion will eat straw,the snake will eat dust. It’s prophesiedin ball point on the palm of your hand.The date has been fixed for the wedding

      1 min read

    • Article

      Voyages Of A Simple Sailor Are Over

      Feb 27, 2020

      Suddenly the sea seems a bigger place. That’s because the greatest exponent of shrink-wrapping it for the rest of us, between the covers of his books, has retired from the ocean. Well, almost. ‘I’d never say never, but firstly I feel too much of an a

      3 min read

    • Article

      Commonplace Book

      Jun 4, 2018

      I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. —Fred Allen I have always wondered, in reading travels, at the childish joy travellers felt at meeting people they knew, and their sense of loneliness when they did not, in

      4 min read

    • Article

      Roger’s PROFANISAURUS

      May 18, 2023

      Roger’s PROFANISAURUS
      7 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems by Joseph Brodsky

      May 12, 2020

      Two Poems by Joseph Brodsky
      7 min read

    • Article

      Ghost Girl, Banana

      Aug 21, 2023

      By the time I was 25, there were only two things I remembered about Mumma. The first was that she smelled of watermelons, the second was that we were happy. We’d taken our father’s name of course, but a name is only half a story. The other half exist

      6 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      May 1, 2019

      “My arm is so brown and so beautiful,” is a thought I haveas I’m about to turn off the lamp and go to sleep.I look at it a moment in the soft glow, and see it, briefly,as though it belonged to someone else. A reddishkind of brown, like a toasted almo

      7 min read

    • Article

      The Call Of The Desert

      Jan 3, 2023

      T.E. Lawrence was taken by his guides to a ruin in the desert of North Syria. The Arabs believed that it had been built by a prince for his queen and that its clay had been kneaded with the essential oils of flowers. As Lawrence wrote in Seven Pillar

      3 min read

    • Article

      Commonplace Book

      Sep 1, 2021

      If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied. —Rudyard Kipling, “Epitaphs of the War,” The Years Between, 1919 She consulted me, a glance, and said: “I think not anything off the wagon. It arrives too quickly. Let’s have somethi

      4 min read

    • Article

      Jan Morris

      Jun 15, 2018

      I have always rather envied the poet Ovid, who was banished from Rome by the emperor Augustus, you may remember, to a remote place called Tomis on the shores of the Black Sea. There he died, ten years later, and his exile has gone into legend and int

      17 min read

    • Article

      The Stiperstones

      Jan 26, 2024

      The Stiperstones
      3 min read

    • Article

      Listening to Jordan

      Oct 15, 2019

      Listening to Jordan
      9 min read

    • Article

      The William Trevor Reader: “In Isfahan”

      Apr 26, 2022

      I count this story as the fourth stone-cold masterpiece we’ve encountered so far. The post The William Trevor Reader: “In Isfahan” appeared first on The Millions.

      3 min read

    • Article

      Hello, Grim Reaper

      Dec 15, 2021

      She was a babe. A fully paid-up, card-carrying babe. There was absolutely no doubt about it, and she was heading straight for me. She was almost sprinting towards me across the recently reimagined lobby of Claridge’s. She looked up, her scarlet-anoin

      3 min read

    • Article

      Moscow

      Feb 21, 2018

      Moscow
      9 min read

    • Article

      In Search of Lost Travels

      Jun 4, 2018

      In Search of Lost Travels
      9 min read

    • Article

      The Realm Of Real Men

      Dec 23, 2022

      The Realm Of Real Men
      5 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Bride of the Dark One

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Bride of the Dark One - Florence Verbell Brown

      .abook_preview_excerpt.htmlTnFy+P/c#mISm>^ݥd~R~_3K2I4( "v朙۔c.V()B?p<;/}Dl?$b-b8/"3L577oh=a3./.k/Q$$=#;|9a0&QB!lOO'ڇsNA7kW&%(i>i&wMĹj :2*#iZoُ{nQmM²$MI4 1tGn蚾+{~[]T7WW]uZC0SN/J~Z蛺0O!6Q[`O! LӓM'^xȅ;O٧$*5]n2,IrE%Ocŏ6Ϳ-4fK-C`AR][xX(B l)h-?Mjl yJ$z,\THe[,/cgu][vC1)1 dL{7GB ~f//H&YJjƙIa-N&ZATTbLc$ygͻZIK\81ƉJj>r)nd ) 1V}t3%͎#D5+b4
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1