Neil Gaiman and Tori Amos – some of the best character writing around…

Been meaning to link to these for a while. Neil Gaiman wrote them to accompany two Tori Amos albums; “Strange Little Girls” and “Scarlet’s Walk”. The first is some of the best character sketches I’ve ever read. The second is a really neat short story entitled “Pages from a Journal found in a shoebox left in a Grayhound Bus somewhere between Tulsa, Oklahoma and Louisville, Kentucky.

Both are also available in the collection “Fragile Things” (Neil Gaiman)

I can’t recommend the albums themselves highly enough, either:

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