The Faber Stories series, a historic collection of individual volumes, showcases the masters of the short story form across a range of genres and styles. Lips the color of blood, a sun of an improbable orange, train wheels sounding like 'guilt, and guilt, and guilt': these are some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom. 'But what is the ninth kingdom?' asks a seemingly friendly lady in her cabin. 'It is the kingdom of frozen will,' comes the answer. 'There is no turning back.' Sylvia Plath's strange and dark story of independence versus infanticide, written a few months after she left home, tackles mortality in motion. Bringing together the past, present, and future in our ninetieth year, the Faber Stories series is a celebratory collectible work.