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* AdultFear:
** "The Plague of Peacocks" has the real possibility that your neighbors will take your dog or cat to the vet, even if they have a license, and euthanize them for the crime of getting loose.
** "The Fluffy Pink Toadstool" has a moment where Tim goes missing in the woods. Everyone becomes frantic while searching for him.
** "Everard's Ride" shows how terrible it is to be TheUnfavorite when you are blamed for your little brother getting into trouble. It ends with [[spoiler:the lead's sister traveling back to the past, telling her brother to not believe she drowned on the way to boarding school]].
** "The Plague of Peacocks" has the real possibility that your neighbors will take your dog or cat to the vet, even if they have a license, and euthanize them for the crime of getting loose.
** "The Fluffy Pink Toadstool" has a moment where Tim goes missing in the woods. Everyone becomes frantic while searching for him.
** "Everard's Ride" shows how terrible it is to be TheUnfavorite when you are blamed for your little brother getting into trouble. It ends with [[spoiler:the lead's sister traveling back to the past, telling her brother to not believe she drowned on the way to boarding school]].
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** "The Fluffy Pink Toadstool" has a moment where Tim goes missing in the woods. Everyone becomes frantic while searching for him.
** "The Fluffy Pink Toadstool" has a moment where Tim goes missing in the woods. Everyone becomes frantic while searching for him.
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** "The Plague of Peacocks" has the real possibility that your neighbors will take your dog or cat to the vet, even if they have a license, and euthanize them for the crime of getting loose.
** "The Fluffy Pink Toadstool" has a moment where Tim goes missing in the woods. Everyone becomes frantic while searching for him.
** "The Fluffy Pink Toadstool" has a moment where Tim goes missing in the woods. Everyone becomes frantic while searching for him.
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''Unexpected Magic'' is a short story collection by Creator/DianaWynneJones. It contains a good portion of her short fiction, if not all of them, and one novella. Some are reprinted from earlier collections such as
''Literature/BelievingIsSeeing''. The first tale is also the only nonfiction one in the lot.
Magic can be anywhere. It can also not work according to plan.
The Girl Jones - (1998) - short story\\
Nad and Dan adn Quaffy - (1990) - novelette\\
The Plague of Peacocks - (1984) - short story\\
The Master - (1989) - short story\\
Enna Hittims - (1999) - short story\\
The Girl Who Loved the Sun - (1990) - short story\\
The Fluffy Pink Toadstool - (1979) - short story\\
Auntie Bea's Day Out - (1979) - short story\\
Carruthers - (1978) - novelette\\
What the Cat Told Me - (1994) - novelette\\
The Green Stone - (1988) - short story\\
The Fat Wizard - (1987) - short story\\
No One - (1984) - novelette\\
Dragon Reserve, Home Eight - (1984) - novelette\\
Little Dot - (2003) - novelette\\
Everard's Ride - (1995) - novella
!! Tropes for this collection include:
* AdultFear:
** "The Plague of Peacocks" has the real possibility that your neighbors will take your dog or cat to the vet, even if they have a license, and euthanize them for the crime of getting loose.
** "The Fluffy Pink Toadstool" has a moment where Tim goes missing in the woods. Everyone becomes frantic while searching for him.
** "Everard's Ride" shows how terrible it is to be TheUnfavorite when you are blamed for your little brother getting into trouble. It ends with [[spoiler:the lead's sister traveling back to the past, telling her brother to not believe she drowned on the way to boarding school]].
* DeadpanSnarker:
** Happens in "The Plague of Peacocks". After Daniel Emmanuel has a run-in with a tree, a rope, and some nails, the Platts don't realize it was telling him and Linda the story of Jesus and petition to have the tree chopped down. Mrs. Willis snarkily asks why not just take Daniel Emmanuel to the vet to put him down, as they did with a good portion of the neighbor's pets.
** The butcher and baker respond to Mother's questions this way in "The Fluffy Pink Toadstool". They tell her that the bread is not stone-ground but wheat-ground, and the animals have a life as natural as that of a human. Mother then stops buying bread and meat, to her kids' dismay.
* TheDogBitesBack: Mrs. Willis is the Platt couple's ButtMonkey more so than anyone else; they barge in on her typing time, interrupt her, and try to insist they "correct" Daniel Emmanuel. When Daniel Emmanuel sets the peacocks on them, Mrs. Willis types news reports on how hard the Platts are trying to get rid of the birds, based on the updates that the kids receive.
* TheDreaded: Mr. Platt and Daniel Emmanuel agree on one thing in "The Plague of Peacocks": the boy's dad Mr. O'Flaherty is absolutely terrifying. He has a consistently bad temper.
* GiftedlyBad: "The Fluffy Pink Toadstool" ends with Mother taking up the violin. When she practices, the family shuts the door to keep things quiet.
* LethalChef: The kids find out that no, their mother cannot cook mushrooms, wild onions, or sloes when she insists on making dinner.
* PetTheDog: The little figure in the bushes gives Timmy a mushroom that multiplies like Tribbles, on seeing how much the family is suffering from Mother's obsessions. It ends up doing the trick: Father puts his foot down and threatens to leave Mother and take the kids because her obsessions are getting out of hand, and she can do them on her own.
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''Literature/BelievingIsSeeing''. The first tale is also the only nonfiction one in the lot.
Magic can be anywhere. It can also not work according to plan.
The Girl Jones - (1998) - short story\\
Nad and Dan adn Quaffy - (1990) - novelette\\
The Plague of Peacocks - (1984) - short story\\
The Master - (1989) - short story\\
Enna Hittims - (1999) - short story\\
The Girl Who Loved the Sun - (1990) - short story\\
The Fluffy Pink Toadstool - (1979) - short story\\
Auntie Bea's Day Out - (1979) - short story\\
Carruthers - (1978) - novelette\\
What the Cat Told Me - (1994) - novelette\\
The Green Stone - (1988) - short story\\
The Fat Wizard - (1987) - short story\\
No One - (1984) - novelette\\
Dragon Reserve, Home Eight - (1984) - novelette\\
Little Dot - (2003) - novelette\\
Everard's Ride - (1995) - novella
!! Tropes for this collection include:
* AdultFear:
** "The Plague of Peacocks" has the real possibility that your neighbors will take your dog or cat to the vet, even if they have a license, and euthanize them for the crime of getting loose.
** "The Fluffy Pink Toadstool" has a moment where Tim goes missing in the woods. Everyone becomes frantic while searching for him.
** "Everard's Ride" shows how terrible it is to be TheUnfavorite when you are blamed for your little brother getting into trouble. It ends with [[spoiler:the lead's sister traveling back to the past, telling her brother to not believe she drowned on the way to boarding school]].
* DeadpanSnarker:
** Happens in "The Plague of Peacocks". After Daniel Emmanuel has a run-in with a tree, a rope, and some nails, the Platts don't realize it was telling him and Linda the story of Jesus and petition to have the tree chopped down. Mrs. Willis snarkily asks why not just take Daniel Emmanuel to the vet to put him down, as they did with a good portion of the neighbor's pets.
** The butcher and baker respond to Mother's questions this way in "The Fluffy Pink Toadstool". They tell her that the bread is not stone-ground but wheat-ground, and the animals have a life as natural as that of a human. Mother then stops buying bread and meat, to her kids' dismay.
* TheDogBitesBack: Mrs. Willis is the Platt couple's ButtMonkey more so than anyone else; they barge in on her typing time, interrupt her, and try to insist they "correct" Daniel Emmanuel. When Daniel Emmanuel sets the peacocks on them, Mrs. Willis types news reports on how hard the Platts are trying to get rid of the birds, based on the updates that the kids receive.
* TheDreaded: Mr. Platt and Daniel Emmanuel agree on one thing in "The Plague of Peacocks": the boy's dad Mr. O'Flaherty is absolutely terrifying. He has a consistently bad temper.
* GiftedlyBad: "The Fluffy Pink Toadstool" ends with Mother taking up the violin. When she practices, the family shuts the door to keep things quiet.
* LethalChef: The kids find out that no, their mother cannot cook mushrooms, wild onions, or sloes when she insists on making dinner.
* PetTheDog: The little figure in the bushes gives Timmy a mushroom that multiplies like Tribbles, on seeing how much the family is suffering from Mother's obsessions. It ends up doing the trick: Father puts his foot down and threatens to leave Mother and take the kids because her obsessions are getting out of hand, and she can do them on her own.
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