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A review by adrianhurchin
Sandman Vol. 11: Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman
5.0
It starts with a cat twining against your leg, two, maybe three years ago, just after you hurt your leg, and it's a stray, and you put down milk in a saucer for it, and when you live in a damn trailer on the edge of the town you can be glad of the company and hell the kittens were cute and you put down more milk and pretty soon don't it seem like all the money you're collecting on disability is going to buy these sacks of catfood and you can hardly keep clear who is whose mother or brother or sister anymore and the trailer stinks of spray but you don't hardly notice it, because those cats are family and so it's a bitch when your bother-in-law over in Moose Hill says he's got a job for you a job on the dairy farm there and it's three hundred dollars a week, and a place to stay, and that's the best money when you're nothing but a farmhand with a leg that's shot and you don't know what to do with the damn cats, the kittens in the drawers, sixty maybe seventy cats and there's more now out in the fields who'll come back tonight to be fed.
Be here Friday, says your brother-in-law, or they'll get someone else in. And that disability won't last forever.
So you lock the trailer door and you go, thinking maybe you'll be back at the weekend to feed the cats, and knowing that you won't.
And then there's just the face on the sheriff's man as he tells you that they had to wear air masks to go into the trailer, that five of them cats were somehow still alive, that sixty of them, maybe more were found part eaten, and he waits for you to say something, anything, and you shake your head and you don't say nothing at all.
Volume 11 of the Sandman is an anthology of stories, seven in total, one for each of the Endless. We get an insight into each of their roles in the Universe and how some feuds came to pass. The above is from Despair, which is a harrowing read throughout. All seven stories create give the reader a different perspective and many include multiple of the Endless, showing how they interact. A great companion piece to the original Sandman series.
Be here Friday, says your brother-in-law, or they'll get someone else in. And that disability won't last forever.
So you lock the trailer door and you go, thinking maybe you'll be back at the weekend to feed the cats, and knowing that you won't.
And then there's just the face on the sheriff's man as he tells you that they had to wear air masks to go into the trailer, that five of them cats were somehow still alive, that sixty of them, maybe more were found part eaten, and he waits for you to say something, anything, and you shake your head and you don't say nothing at all.
Volume 11 of the Sandman is an anthology of stories, seven in total, one for each of the Endless. We get an insight into each of their roles in the Universe and how some feuds came to pass. The above is from Despair, which is a harrowing read throughout. All seven stories create give the reader a different perspective and many include multiple of the Endless, showing how they interact. A great companion piece to the original Sandman series.