Beginning with the Ubume Bird

A body clad in the grandest feathers, but a life like wild grass. He has seen the darkest nights, which is why the bright burning flame in his heart never falters. The Ubume Bird flies in the night and hides in the day, a ghostly and divine being. Clad in feathers, it is a bird in flight; feathers removed, she is a woman. A maiden of the heavens, a harlot of the night, a hooked star, an invisible bird.– Stories of Mystery