Sleight of Hand

Item: Sleight of Hand
Author: WhichBook

Peter S Beagle

What a truly brilliant and original collection of short stories. They are so much more than fantasy! Each story is a perfect minature, beautifully written, funny, sad, warm and often moving. The excerpt comes from the title story 'Sleight of Hand' and is a perfect description of what the author does in these stories.

Extract

'Since I know how the trick's done, and you don't, I'm afraid I have you at a disadvantage.' He put one long finger to his lips and pursed them, considering, before he started again. 'Let's try it as a riddle. I am not entirely what I appear, being old as time, vast as space, and endless as the future. My nature is known to all, but typically misunderstood. And I meet everyone and everything alive at least once. Indeed, the encounter is entirely unavoidable. Who am I?'

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