The Hundredth House Had No Walls: A Tor.com Original
By Laurie Penny
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"The Hundreth House Had No Walls," a Tor.com Original short story from the award-winning author, journalist, screenwriter, essayist, public speaker, and activist Laure Penny.
The King was bored.
For five hundred years he had been King of the country of Myth and Shadow, and he was a good king, if a slightly bewildered one.
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Laurie Penny
Laurie Penny is an award-winning author, columnist, journalist and screenwriter. Her seven books include Bitch Doctrine (Bloomsbury 2017), Unspeakable Things (Bloomsbury 2014), Everything Belongs To The Future (Tor, 2016) and Penny Red (Pluto Press, 2011). As a freelance journalist, she writes essays, columns and longform features about politics, social justice, pop culture, feminism, mental health, technology for the Guardian, Longreads, Time Magazine, Buzzfeed, The New York Times, Vice, Salon, The Nation, The New Statesman, The New Inquiry, Tor.com and Medium. Her short stories have been published by Tor.com, Terraform and in collections for MacMillan and Nautilus Press. She was a 2014-15 Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University. As a screenwriter, Laurie has worked on The Nevers, (HBO), Netflix’s The Haunting, and Amazon’s Carnival Row’
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The Hundredth House Had No Walls
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The King was bored.
For five hundred years he had been King of the country of Myth and Shadow, and he was a good king, if a slightly bewildered one. The countryside rolled with treacherous forests rammed full of all the requisite enchanted creatures,