Smoke and mirrors : short fictions and illusions /
A collection of fantasy stories and poems. In Chivalry, a woman discovers the Holy Grail in a secondhand shop, in Murder Mysteries, an angel visiting Los Angeles provides the inside story on Lucifer's revolt against God, and there are revisionist stories on Snow White and Santa Claus.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Avon Books,
[1998]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.