"The Parliament of Rooks" (#40): Cain, Abel, Eve, and Matthew tell stories while entertaining baby Daniel Hall."Soft Places" (#39): Somewhere in the liminal spaces between reality and the Dreaming, Marco Polo encounters a host of figures."The Hunt" (#38): A young girl's grandfather tells her a story from The Old Country."Three Septembers and a January" (#31): A fictionalized version of the life of Joshua Abraham Norton, self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States, who finds himself the subject of a bet between two of the Endless."August" (#30): Augustus Caesar disguises himself as a beggar and considers the future of the Roman Empire."Thermidor" (#29): Lady Johanna Constantine fulfills a favor for Morpheus during The French Revolution.In original publication order, the included stories are: The collection also includes the initially standalone release The Sandman Special. Not an "arc" so much as an anthology of unrelated oneshots, it is a compilation of two themed collections - Distant Mirrors about leaders and the power they wield (originally published as issues 29-31 note which is why this is listed ahead of the fifth volume, A Game of You and 50) and Convergences about people meeting each other (originally published as issues 38-40). Fables and Reflections is the sixth volume of The Sandman (1989).
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