Short stories tagged with Pilgrimage
Listing 4 stories.
In the Land of Witches, an enslaved girl learns the magic of Dream Science and liberates herself from her master. Her account of the town inspires a present-day researcher, trapped in her war-torn hometown, and a band of witches to pilgrimage to the site. An enslaved girl's fantastical account of the Land of Witches encourages a group of witches and a present-day researcher, marooned in her war-torn hometown, to locate the site through the magic of dreams.
A sixty-year-old ex-missionary takes an emotional pilgrimage to her first home in India and makes a new friend along the way.
A priest on a planet with aliens that commune with their dead must go on a pilgrimage when the first human at his outpost dies and becomes a confused ghost.
A former book thief works with an organized crime group to steal back an Atlas which has the ability to correspond with Hell.