{"id":3417,"date":"2010-04-12T12:06:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T20:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=3417"},"modified":"2010-04-12T12:07:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T20:07:43","slug":"free-readin-five-short-stories-from-neil-gaiman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/news\/free-readin-five-short-stories-from-neil-gaiman\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Readin&#8217; | Five Short Stories from Neil Gaiman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/a-study-in-emerald-by-neil-gaiman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/a-study-in-emerald-by-neil-gaiman.jpg\" alt=\"A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman\" title=\"A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman\" width=\"202\" height=\"202\" class=\"author_pic_right\" \/><\/a>A few short stories from one of my favourite authors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/p\/Cool_Stuff\/Short_Stories\/The_Case_of_the_Four_and_Twenty_Blackbirds\"><strong>The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>This is a story called &#8220;The Case of Four and Twenty Blackbirds&#8221;. It was first published in 1984, in KNAVE and was my third published short story. It was reprinted in 1993 ANGELS AND VISITATIONS (although I didn&#8217;t put it into Smoke and Mirrors) and it&#8217;s been collected in anthologies a few times since then.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/p\/Cool_Stuff\/Short_Stories\/I_Cthulhu\">I Cthulhu<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>or What&#8217;s A Tentacle-Faced Thing Like Me Doing In A Sunken City Like This (Latitude 47\u00b0 9&#8242; S, Longitude 126\u00b0 43&#8242; W)?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/mediafiles\/exclusive\/shortstories\/emerald.pdf\">A Study in Emerald<\/a><\/strong> (PDF, Right Click + &#8220;Save As&#8221;)<br \/>\n<em>Written by Neil Gaiman, Illustrations and Layout by Jouni Kopnen<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/neilgaiman.net\/cinnamon\/page1.htm\"><strong>Cinnamon<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Cinnamon was a princess, a long time ago, in a small hot country, where everything was very old. Her eyes were pearls, which gave her great beauty, but meant she was blind. Her world was the colour of pearls: pale white and pink, and softly glowing.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/p\/Cool_Stuff\/Short_Stories\/How_To_Talk_To_Girls_At_Parties\"><strong>How To Talk To Girls At Parties<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Come on,&#8221; said Vic. &#8220;It&#8217;ll be great.&#8221; &#8220;No, it won&#8217;t,&#8221; I said, although I&#8217;d lost this fight hours ago, and I knew it. &#8220;It&#8217;ll be brilliant,&#8221; said Vic, for the hundredth time. &#8220;Girls! Girls! Girls!&#8221; He grinned with white teeth.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A few of these can be found in <strong>Fragile Things<\/strong>, a collection of Gaiman&#8217;s short fiction. Beyond these stories, Gaiman&#8217;s website offers a whole whack of other &#8216;Cool Stuff&#8217;; you can find it all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/p\/Cool_Stuff\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few short stories from one of my favourite authors: The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds This is a story called &#8220;The Case of Four and Twenty Blackbirds&#8221;. It was first published in 1984, in KNAVE and was my third published short story. 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