7/4/2023 0 Comments Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman![]() ![]() ![]() Twenty years later, she becomes a reality, and too much for him to handle. ![]() “The Thing About Cassandra”: Teenager Stuart Innes draws an imaginary girlfriend in his notebooks to avoid peer pressure. Yet there is a price to pay if the maze is not run correctly… "A Lunar Labyrinth": The narrator walks up a “gentle hill on a summer's evening” with a local guide, who shows him a maze constructed of hedges of rosemary-“for remembering.” And he remembers the people who have walked the labyrinth according to the phases of the moon, for desire, for healing, for good fortune. The poems are “Making A Chair,” “My Last Landlady,” “Observing The Formalities,” “Witch Work,” and “In Relig Odhrain,” the last a reference to a Celtic tale.įor me, the standouts among the stories are: The two dozen works-19 stories, five poems-in this collection are guaranteed to give the reader an experience, for no other author has quite the same deft touch as Gaiman in spinning other-worlds that, disturbingly, seem to be only a hair's breadth away from reality. ![]()
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