Short-a-Day: Steven Millhauser's "The Princess, the Dwarf, and the Dungeon"
Originally published in Little Kingdoms (1993). Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 76."Grapes swell on our slopes, deer graze in the grassy trench between our walls, and in the winding streets, bordered by houses of white-washed wood and clean stone, sunlight and shadow fall equally." So goes the last line of Millhauser's medieval semi-fantasy, reminding the reader that despite the title, the story is not just a…