Smoke and Mirrors : Short Fictions and Illusions Gallup Press wistful and vulnerable beneath the

wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter

a word of inspiration

there is a town that has stood on a jut of granite for six hundred years

Ranges from technical to humorous and everything in between

Smoke and Mirrors : Short Fictions and Illusions Gallup Press wistful and vulnerable beneath theIn the deft hands of Neil Gaiman, magic is no mere illusion and anything is possible. In this, Gaiman's first book of short stories, his imagination and supreme artistry transform a mundane world into a place of terrible wonders a place where an old woman can purchase the Holy Grail at a thrift store, where assassins advertise their services in the Yellow Pages under "Pest Control," and where a frightened young boy must barter for his life with a mean