On a roll today...

[robinbloke]

Goldie was dizzy. Swimming in endless circles, he'd been dizzy for as long as he could remember.
Which as he was a goldfish was around five seconds.
Suddenly he felt a jolt in the water as the invisible prison that held him was lifted up. Moments later he was being sloshed all over the place, carried away somewhere.
A ring of a bell and a bump.
"You made me drop my bag!" a voice shouted as his little world exploded and he fell into a stream from a bridge. A splosh and he was free!
No more circles for Goldie.

Comments

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Sweeper of Dreams is in a book of short stories called "Smoke & Mirrors" - mostly very good, a couple of weak ones, and a couple of ohmygoican'tgetitoutofmyhead ones.

He's also written Stardust - one of the best modern fairy tales I've read, and finds loose ends I wasn't even aware of to tie up at the end.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

More to read, argh, I need more time dammit!

[littlecat.livejournal.com]

I also recommend American Gods very good, infact I have to recommend all of Neil Gaiman's Stuff.