5/30/2023 0 Comments Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman![]() 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. 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. ![]()
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