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"Smoke and Mirrors" is Neil Gaiman's best short story collection, in my opinion. My favorite story from the collection is "Snow, Glass, Apples", a retelling of Snow White from the point of view of the stepmother. In it, Ms. White is not all pureness and mistreated innocence. The stepmother is not an evil witch -- just a new wife trying to fit into a family that's clearly got some issues. Who's to say that this perspective is less valid than that in the original story? Well...okay, maybe Bettelheim, but regardless, I've never approached the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves the same way since reading this.