The Sea and Little Fishes is a short story by Terry Pratchett, written in 1998. It is set in his Discworld universe, and features Lancre witches Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg. It was originally published in a sampler alongside a story called "The Wood Boy" by Raymond E. Feist, and later in a collection called Legends.The story established a basis for various elements of the novel A Hat Full of Sky, but is not required to understand that novel.

It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door? It's a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There's something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar itself is pretty nameless), it turns out that the Royal Mintruns at a loss. A 300 year old wizard is after his girlfriend, he's about to be exposed as a fraud, but the Assassins Guild might get him first. In fact lot of people want him dead Oh. And every day he has to take the Chairman for walkies. Everywhere he looks he's making enemies. What he should be doing is ...Making Money!

Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork — not the old

fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast football

with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go gloing when you drop

them. And now, the wizards of Unseen University must win a football

match, without using magic, so they’re in the mood for trying

everything else. The prospect of the Big Match draws in a street

urchin with a wonderful talent for kicking a tin can, a maker of

jolly good pies, a dim but beautiful young woman, who might just turn

out to be the greatest fashion model there has ever been, and the

mysterious Mr Nutt (and no one knows anything much about Mr Nutt, not

even Mr Nutt, which worries him, too). As the match approaches, four

lives are entangled and changed for ever. Because the thing about

football — the important thing about football — is that it is not

just about football. Here we go! Here we go! Here we go!

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies and an ancient crime more terrible than murder.He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches, and occasionally snookered and out of his mind, but never out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be a finding, there must be a chase and there must be a punishment.They say that in the end all sins are forgiven.But not quite all …