Smoke and mirrors : short fictions and illusions

Smoke and mirrors Short fictions and illusions

Neil Gaiman

Book - 1998

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Subjects
Short stories.
Published
New York : Avon Books 1998.
Language
English
Main Author
Neil Gaiman (-)
Edition
1st ed
Physical Description
viii, 339 p.
ISBN
9780061450167
9780380789023
9780380973644
  • Reading the entrails: a rondel
  • An introduction
  • Chivalry
  • Nicholas was
  • The price
  • Troll bridge
  • Don't ask Jack
  • The goldfish pool and other stories
  • The white road
  • Queen of knives
  • Changes
  • The daughter of owls
  • Shoggoth's old peculiar
  • Virus
  • Looking for the girl
  • Only the end of the world again
  • Bay wolf
  • we can get them for you wholesale
  • One life, furnished in early moorcock
  • Cold colors
  • The sweeper of dreams
  • Foreign parts
  • Vampire sestina
  • Mouse
  • The sea change
  • When we went to see the end of the world: by Dawnie Morningside, age 11 1/4
  • Desert wind
  • Tastings
  • Babycakes
  • Murder mysteries
  • Snow, glass, apples.

Smoke and Mirrors Short Fictions and Illusions Chapter One Nicholas Was... older than sin, and his beard could grow no whiter. He wanted to die. The dwarfish natives of the Arctic caverns did not speak his language, but conversed in their own, twittering tongue, conducted incomprehensible rituals, when they were not actually working in the factories. Once every year they forced him, sobbing and protesting, into Endless Night. During the journey he would stand near every child in the world, leave one of the dwarves' invisible gifts by its bedside. The children slept, frozen into time. He envied Prometheus and Loki, Sisyphus and Judas. His punishment was harsher. Ho. Ho. Ho. Smoke and Mirrors Short Fictions and Illusions . Copyright © by Neil Gaiman. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold. Excerpted from Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions by Neil Gaiman All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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