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The Sea Change

I wrote this in the top flat of a tiny mews house in Earls Court. It was inspired by a Lisa Snellings statue and by the memory of the beach at Portsmouth when I was a boy: the dragging rattle that the sea makes as the waves pull back over the pebbles. I was writing the last part of Sandman at the time, which was called "The Tempest", and bits of Shakespeare's play rattle through this as well, just as it rattled through my head back then.

I had agreed to write a story for an anthology of short stories about gargoyles, and, with the deadline rapidly approaching, was feeling rather blank.

Gargoyles, it occurred to me, were placed over churches and cathedrals to protect them. I wondered if a gargoyle could be placed over something else to protect it. Such as, for example, a heart…