Drawing on a legend from the chronicles of the historian Tabari, Stockton imagines El Khoudr, vizier to the Two-Horned Alexander, who drank from the fountain of life and could never die. Now living quietly in modern times, he tells of the wives he married, the empires he served and the odd difficulties of being immortal.
A playful, gently ironic fantasy that will suit readers of Stockton’s lighter tales and anyone fond of immortality stories. Download the free EPUB.