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'''''Fragile Things''''' is the third short story and poetry collection to be released by author ''[[Neil Gaiman]]''. Several of its works were later reprinted in ''M is for Magic''.
"I would rather recall a life misspent on fragile things than spent evading moral debt." Neil Gaiman says this phrase came to him in a dream. He thought about how stories are fragile things,
The following short stories, poems, and Tarot card descriptions (no, really), are as follows in the American edition:
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** "Goliath" Seems all is well the hero saving the day, but {{spoiler|the machines refuse to bring him back to Earth, saying he has 55 minutes left of oxygen before he suffocates. He asks to be plugged back into the Matrix, so that he can find the woman he loves and marry her, while letting her believe that seconds instead of years have passed. }}.
** In-universe, Greta says that this is how ''[[The Last Battle]]'' ended during her interview with Professor Hastings. She says it was stupid that Susan was excluded for not believing in Aslan and that it isn't a happy ending that her siblings got to go to heaven and leave her behind.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: The narrator in "Instructions" has advice on how to be this when you end up in a fairy tale.
* [[Walking the Earth]]: Shadow has been doing this since the end of ''[[American Gods]]''. He takes a detour when Mr. Alice has a job for him and needs a "monster".
* [[Worth It]]: The Epicure Club comes to this conclusion after {{spoiler|tasting Sunbird makes most of their years burn off and turn them to ash. Zebediah is the only one who becomes a young man insteda.}}. Apparently, {{spoiler|each incarnation of the Epicurean Club has come to this conclusion}}.
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