“I believe everyone in the world should love life above all else.”
In an age full of heroes, the voices of ordinary people should not be drowned out.
Survival, ideals, wastelands, despair, wholehearted sincerity.
A collection of stories about ordinary people trying to love life. Each story stands alone, with varied writing styles and very different moods.
History of Foreign Literature:
Ancient Greece: On the night Troy fell, a girl who drew her bow and loosed arrows within the city died at the foot of its walls.
The innocent handmaiden of a princess in the god-favored kingdom of Phaeacia watches Odysseus sail away.
The Middle Ages: The impoverished child helped by the Savior watches Jesus become famous, then die.
The Renaissance: In Shakespeare's time, the “heroes in skirts” knock on the theater doors.
Romanticism: On the barricades, a young aristocrat who joined the ABC youth dies on the eve of victory.
Realism: A young teacher falls in love with Alyosha Karamazov.
(To be continued)
Crossovers: American Comics and More:
DC: How a local escapes Gotham.
Hannibal: Will Graham's excellent student (and secret admirer).
Inside No. 9: PTSD about the number 9.
(To be continued)
The author is using this story as motivation to study for the graduate entrance exam in foreign literature. Updates are whenever inspiration strikes, and the outline may be changed at any time. The story itself takes precedence.
Theme: The lives of ordinary people are worth loving, too.
Give! I! Even! New!