The Sandman

This story deals with the idea of quality versus quantity of life. It is split between two views: the lives of a group on an island off the coast of Venice protected by magic from Death versus the memories and thoughts of a young American who has never forgotten his childhood encounter with her.

This story depicts a woman who bargains with Desire to win the hand of her love and then loses him to war.

Near the beginning of the habitability of the universe, Dream and his new paramour Killala of the Glow travel to a meeting of astronomical phenomena, wherein Killalla is astonished to identify the delegates as the very stars, galaxies, and dimensions which comprise the cosmos.

This collection of fifteen very short vignettes illustrates different aspects of Despair, either the character herself, the emotion in abstract, or people in a state of despair.

This story is about several mentally unbalanced people who are brought together on a quest to save Delirium from herself.

This is a story about some archaeologists who uncover and explore a peninsula from many years in the future.

This short story is simply a wander through Destiny's garden of forking paths.