Morpheus punishes Richard Madoc with an overwhelming inspiration of story ideas when he refused to set Calliope free:
~ During a book reading, something had happened to the world outside, a Holocaust of some kind. But, the audience was safe as long as the author kept reading.
~ A story about the fraternity of critics but in reality, it was a dark brethren linked by profane rites and blood vows.
~ A city where the streets are paved with time.
~ A train full of silent women driven by a blind man.
~ A were-goldfish who transforms into a wolf at full moon.
~ A man who inherits a library card to the Library of Alexandria.
~ Two old women taking a weasel on holiday.
~ A sestina about silence using the words dark, ragged, never, screaming, fire, kiss.
~ An old man owned the universe and kept it in a jam jar.
~ A man who falls in love with a paper doll.
~ Magical and alchemical relations seen as a cargo cult.
~ The sun setting over the Parthenon.
~ Sharks teeth soup.
~ A nightingale, a rose bush and a black rubber dog collar.
* Information taken from the Netflix adaptation of The Sandman series written by Neil Gaiman *
