The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of meaning itself.

I’m sorry I’m young,” Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. “We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else.” The second part was more a plea, and to her surprise...

The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end…in the end it is our only ally.

Do you know why you’re here?’ the doctor said.Clumsiness. Clumsiness is the first and then we have a list: lazy, wayward, headstrong, fat, ugly, mean, tactless, and cruel. Also a liar. That category includes subheads:...

Yr had a region called the Fear-bog. Lactamaeon had taken her there once to see the monsters and corpses of her nightmares accumulating there from year after year of terrifying dreams. They had swum through...

What good is your reality, when justice fails and dishonesty is glossed over and the ones who keep faith suffer …. What good is your reality then?”” …. I never promised you a rose garden....

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.