Author Description

Clay for Ellen Anas waits on a quiet shopping street of the evening city. He hopes to catch a face. But what if a face catches him? A short story of glamours and charms from the Lands of the Sweet Waters. Anas stands behind his hand cart, facing the entrance of the Street of Glamours. His fingers rewrap the drying clay, and rearrange the molds for clay tablets. His eyes scan the open doorways of the shops. He watches a woman step out into the sunlight. Her large eyes shine; her pale cheeks blush the color of her full lips; the profile of her small nose is a sculpted curve. All a glamour. She looks the twin sister of the other glamour-buyers he's seen. Another woman leaves a shop. Her smile is lopsided: right up, left down. One cheek dimples, the other doesn't. Her skin tone wavers between milk and the gray of dry clay. She's perfect. He steps out from behind his cart.... (Keywords: sword, sorcery, love at first sight, coming of age, young adult, epic fantasy adventure series, free, fiction, enchant, enchanted, enchantment, crystal, charm, charmed, wish, spell, spellbind, glamour glamor, woman, female, beauty, attraction, captivating, mask, unmask, disguise, concealment)