Warning! Some people consider this story to be morally repugnant. In “At the Virgin’s Doorstep,” the first fantasy short story that New York Times Bestselling author David Farland ever wrote—and which some people insist should be burned—a plague of unicorns threatens the crops of a small town, and so a young man stakes out the house of a virgin, hoping that she’ll lure the unicorns in. It’s a wry story, about a young man growing up and facing a very small evil. Yet the reader is left to is David Farland anti-virgin, anti-unicorn, or just some kind of a sick puppy?
Author
David Farland is the author of the bestselling Runelords series, including Chaosbound, The Wyrmling Horde and Worldbinder. He also writes science-fiction as David Wolverton. He won the 1987 Writers of the Future contest, and has been nominated for a Nebula Award and a Hugo Award. Farland also works as a video game designer, and has taught writing seminars around the U.S. and Canada. He lives in Saint George, Utah. He passed away on January 14, 2022. http://us.macmillan.com/author/davidf...
