{"id":3267,"date":"2012-11-11T18:47:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T23:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2021-05-31T08:02:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T12:02:20","slug":"the-heavenly-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/3267","title":{"rendered":"The Heavenly Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Heavenly Fox<\/a><\/em> (2011) Richard Parks<\/p>\n

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A fox who reaches the age of fifty gains the ability to transform into a human woman. A fox who reaches the age of one hundred can transform into either a beautiful young girl or a handsome young man at will and can sense the world around them to a distance of over four hundred leagues. A fox who reaches the age of one thousand years, however, becomes a Heavenly Fox, an Immortal of great power, able to commune with the gods themselves. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That blurb seems the easiest way to explain the mythology.<\/p>\n

Springshadow is a fox who is days away from becoming immortal. There is a price to pay for immortality: she must steal the chi of mortal men, but she has tried very hard not to kill those men.<\/p>\n

I had not idea what to expect from this story, and with no expectations, the story simply unfolded before me, something I enjoyed.<\/p>\n

Please be aware that this is a novella, so it’s a slim book a few hundred pages long. One could hope that this will at some point be available in an eBook edition, so the price is a little less steep.
\nRating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by PS Publishing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Heavenly Fox (2011) Richard Parks A fox who reaches the age of fifty gains the ability to transform into a human woman. A fox who reaches the age of one hundred can transform into either a beautiful young girl or a handsome young man at will and can sense the world around them to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,2,291,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asian","category-fantasy","category-paper","category-short-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-QH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5298,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5298","url_meta":{"origin":3267,"position":0},"title":"Fiction River: Hex in the City","author":"Michelle","date":"June 22, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Fiction River: Hex in the City (2013) edited by Kerrie L. 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