Upon finishing coordinating two romance stories volumes, Teodora Matei and me have come to ask ourselves: „Now what?” We then decided to go for a new challenge: a fantasy volume. Still, since some of the stories we’ve received were only introducing mild fantastic elements in a daily routine, we’ve chose to have a broader approach. After all, the most important thing was the quality of the material we were dealing with, not necessarily if it went boldly into creating magical realms and creatures or not.
Under the Crooked Dragon Water includes stories written by Daniel Timariu, Anamaria Ionescu, Lucian-Dragoș Bogdan, Lucian-Vasile Szabo, Teodora Matei, Liviu Surugiu, Raymond Clarinard, Cătălina Fometici, Monica Ramirez and Dănuț Ungureanu.
Alex Anghel, the detective of two worlds, makes a promise…
…and another one is made in the sanctuary for the broken souls, one that smells like vengeance.
The death of the heir prince of Çeretkipi is shrouded in mystery…
…and so is the criminal underworld of Timisoara.
There are fairytales for the grownups…
…because what getting old means, after all?
How does a day in the life of a striped cat look like…
…and what happens when the curtain falls at the end of the opera Turandot.
The world of art often hides doors to unknown worlds…
…doors that can be also reached in a simple jogging routine throu the forest.