标题: 《Mad for the Mints 》作者：- Amy Sterling Casil【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-8-11 08:39 标题: 《Mad for the Mints 》作者：- Amy Sterling Casil【EPUB】 Mad for the Mints by Amy Sterling Casil "Mad for the Mints" is a funny story about how curiously strong and addictive peppermints changed the universe - possibly very much for the better! Did you not know how Mad King George lost the Colonies? By listening to very poor advice from a curious pair of friends! Girard Callard, King's Confectioner and maker of "curiously strong mints," must outwit the King's bold, hearty and ungrammatical Hessian guards to explain to the King how he is going broke supplying the King's "friends" with mints. The greedy, mint- addicted "foreigners," have parked their wondrous silver ship in George's Hampton Court maze. With the help of the wig-wearing good English horse Phutatorius, the King's true friend, Girard learns whether "Mad King George" was really mad after all, or there's more to the story than history tells. "Mad for the Mints" initially appeared in the July, 2000 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and featured a pretty darn awesome cover illustration by David Hardy - most accurately depicting the King and his wig, Hampton Court maze, poor Gerard, the "foreigners," and of course - the King's real friend, the wise and good Hounyhymn Phutatorius. This story was initially written in longhand in a 25 cent notebook at the