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  1. Neil Gaiman _ Fragile Things: Short Fictions

    She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.
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  2. Neil Gaiman _ Fragile Things: Short Fictions

    There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
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    We think that tomorrow, unless we surrender, they may drop the moon on us." "You're joking.""Wish I was.
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  4. Neil Gaiman _ Fragile Things: Short Fictions

    This fight was old, Shadow thought, older than even Mr. Alice knew, and he was thinking that even as the creature's talons raked his chest. It was the fight of man against monster, and it was old as time: it was Theseus battling the Minotaur, it was Beowulf and Grendel, it was the fight of every hero who had ever stood between the firelight and the darkness and wiped the blood of something inhuman from his sword.
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  5. Neil Gaiman _ Fragile Things: Short Fictions

    She prays she's bought another clutch of days. We save our lives in such unlikely ways.
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    THE MAGICIANThey asked St. Germain's manservant if his master was truly a thousand years old, as it was rumored he had claimed. 'How would I know?" the man replied. "I have only been in the master's employ for three hundred years.
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  7. Neil Gaiman _ Fragile Things: Short Fictions

    Shadow found himself starting to like Smith. He told himself that liking this man was not a sensible thing to do. He had met people like Smith before, people without consciences, without scruples, without hearts, and they were uniformly as dangerous as they were likeable.
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  8. Neil Gaiman _ Fragile Things: Short Fictions

    Yesterday, all this was snow. Always winter, and never Christmas.
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  9. Neil Gaiman _ Fragile Things: Short Fictions

    He had imagined Scotland as being a soft place, all gentle heathery hills, but here on the north coast everything seemed sharp and jutting, even the grey clouds that scudded across the pale blue sky. It was as if the bones of the world showed through.
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  10. Neil Gaiman _ Fragile Things: Short Fictions

    When your children grow, when your dark locks begin to silver, when you are an old woman, alone with your three bears, what will you see? What stories will you tell?
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  11. Neil Gaiman _ Fragile Things: Short Fictions

    Somewhere in the night, someone was writing.
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  12. Neil Gaiman _ Fragile Things: Short Fictions

    There are doors, after all, between the living and the dead, and they swing in both directions.
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