Two short stories by ‘a master of the weird and wonderful’.
In the first of these stories, Mr Wilberforce, aged a hundred and eight, has a chance encounter with the angel of death. He discovers that he should have died some time ago – but how can this administrative blunder be put right?
Miss Sashburn, a resident in the same retirement home as Mr Wilberforce, is not quite so old – a mere hundred and three. But, as she explains, she has lived a long and charmed life as a result of a favour that she did to the fairies, many years ago.
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