‘Medusa’s Ankles’ A Selection of AS Byatt’s Wildly Imagined Stories

The princess story with the title “Cold” is here. Fearing that she will melt in the sun, this delicate young woman marries a desert prince and builds an underground palace of bent glass for him. A story titled “Breath of Dragons” is about “Dune” shadows, gigantic worm-like creatures that slide down a mountain, sucking up …