"Killed Red-Haired Girl! Scaled Creatures of Legend circle above the flaming castle, shrieking their hunger for Rhiannon, the red-haired daughter of prophecy was uttered-and now nearly sixteen years later they try again. The winged horrors are massing once more. Their evil masters, the Mighty ... (more)

In every language words are sometimes used in a way that requires us to understand them as pictures of something else. To call a person a dog does not mean that he literally has four legs; the word is used as a picture of the character of that person. There is a lot of picture language, or figurativ... (more)