"I dreamed no dreams, loved no one, lost nothing but what I destroyed with my own hands." Kahna's blood is poison and death. Still, she longs for the touch of another human being. Caenlux has slain all rival gods, but a champion from another world dares challenge him. The laces, the comb, the apple-were these the Queen's weapons, or the Mirror's? Welcome to the fantasy worlds and dark fairy tales of Y.M. Pang. For the first time, sixteen acclaimed stories and poems are gathered in one collection. Join the tribulations of a traumatized assassin, an unfortunate innkeeper, a heartless fisherwoman, and a weary immortal, alongside familiar faces from fairy tales and mythology. In All the Broken Blades, mortals prove deadlier than gods, princes long to be merfolk, and happy endings are not guaranteed.