Cordelia’s Honor – Lois McMaster Bujold

_{Hmm. Space Opera? Melodrama?}

Ah.

Stella-drama.

The Room

I want you to imagine the best soap opera ever made. I just saw the pilot episode, and there’s a good chance HBO are developing it right now. It’s just like every other soap you ever saw but with one special, ground-breaking difference. TV will never be the same again. It’s called, The Room.

Marcelino Pan y Vino

A friar walks from his monastery into the small town nearby, passing all the townsfolk heading the other way for a celebration – only the sick or infirm have remained behind. They call out friendly greetings, ask him to bless a newborn baby, which he does. At his destination he is welcomed by two worried parents, their young daughter seriously ill. The friar offers to tell the story of Marcelino, a story that will do the poor girl much good – a story for her parents to hear as well.