Poor Imp

It sounds like nothing I would tend to read, but it's tone is dry enough it amuses me. I'd glance at the summary just for that. ^_^ -- Theatre-Boy

A younger sister, with large eyes and a bit of a pout who is always tagging along when anyone else is doing something. -- Franz

Middle-Eastern, or fantasy with that tilt to the tone. Only because I like the sound of it, I'd pick it up. Though I don't tend to go for name-titled stories ...

A poor little kid, freckled, who gets teased to the devil and back for her name and has a runny nose from sniffling about it. -- Anton Betrenitov

Brings to mind an author my younger sister loves: Vivian Vande Velde. (American young adult writer, I think?) With that in mind: A short story, or short story collection with ...

A bleak, dark-eyed fellow with sleepless, circled eyes and a name that seems like fate intended to make him a laughing-stock; he can't be happy if he tries. -- Skelta

It makes me think of a children's pop-up book. ^_^'' But if it weren't, I think I'd assume it were some sort of magical realism, or coming-of-age tale; being incongruous, ...

A slight girl, noble birth or some such thing; dark hair and cool manner about everything, though she doesn't truly mean it. -- Previn

No. Or I guess I could. Hey, if I wanted to, right? -Tov If it's in the abstract I do. Bloody Hell, you can believe anything if it's abstract. -Piers ...

One of those young adult, 'real' fiction, sort of things? I'm afraid it wouldn't interest me in the least. Not on title - but with intriguing cover art, perhaps I'd ...

Hey -- off buildings, right? Ha. Er, serious? -Tov No, not that I remember. -Piers --- Fond of heights?

Two. Probably. Unless you mean like 'Leda says, right? Doesn't like language . -Tov English, and I can read Spanish, Italian - bloody useless in this city. -Piers -- What ...

I can't say why precisely, but I like it -- you'd have to say it charms me. It's a sort of connotation, and the lighter tone of 'coppery' rather than ...

Tov hesitated, the briefest half-flicker of a look and pause. Piers found it difficult to give him credit. A split-second later, he had ducked under Fedya's arm - out-flung and ...

It has an amusingly quirky sound, with its rhyme and odd assortment of things. I'd think of Diana Wynne Jones, off-the-wall and clever - for a short story, very good. ...