fragile things short fictions and wonders by neil gaiman

I remember life, and meeting people as people and not just as things to feed on or control, and I remember what it was to feel something, anything, happy or sad or anything.' And then she stopped.

I miss daylight and food and knowing how it feels to touch someone and care. 'We're you with all your fuckups and all the things that make you human - all your fears and lonelinesses and confusions. The 32 gems of prose and verse in this astonishing collection stretch the imagination and engage the intellect even as they illuminate the vagaries of human experience. And if we crave blood, well, it is no more than the way you people crave food or affection or sunlight - and besides, it gets us out of the house. Fragile Things showcases the distinctive storytelling genius that has made Neil Gaiman one of the most admired literary artists of our time. We don't die or age or suffer from pain or cold or thirst. 'In your fantasies,' she said, 'my people are just like you. The only tears shed are happy ones.”įragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders There are bones untouched beneath the warm French earth which dream of a daughter's wedding. There is an old woman in Miami who wakes, confused, from a dream of the wind blowing the wildflowers in a meadow. Her last thought, before that bullet, was that she was four months' pregnant, and that if we do not fight to create a future there will be no future for any of us. First she dug her own grave, then a single bullet to the back of the skull. Actually the Gestapo picked her up during a border crossing in 1943, and they left her in a meadow. She keeps herself to herself and smiles rarely, as if the weight of memory keeps her from finding joy.

She now lives in a condo in Miami, a tiny French woman with white hair, with a daughter and a grand-daughter.

Fragile things short fictions and wonders by neil gaiman