Fragile things : short fictions and wonders

Summary: A collection of more than twenty-five short fictional works follows a theme of the intersections between life and death, perception and reality, and darkness and light.

Item details

ISBN: 9780061252020 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0061252026 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xxxiii, 360, 16 p. ; 21 cm.
Publisher: New York : Harper Perennial, c2007.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- A study in emerald -- The fairy reel -- October in the chair -- The hidden chamber -- Forbidden brides of the faceless slaves in the secret house of the night of dread desire -- The flints of memory lane -- Closing time -- Going wodwo -- Bitter grounds -- Other people -- Keepsakes and treasures -- Good boys deserve favors -- The facts in the case of the departure of Miss Finch -- Strange little girls -- Harlequin valentine -- Locks -- The problem of Susan -- Instructions -- How do you think it feels? -- My life -- Fifteen painted cards from a vampire tarot -- Feeders and eaters -- Diseasemaker's croup -- In the end -- Goliath -- Pages from a journal found in a shoebox left in a Greyhound bus somewhere between Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Louisville, Kentucky -- How to talk to girls at parties -- The day the saucers came -- Sunbird -- Inventing Aladdin -- The monarch of the glen -- Credits.