A smile opened, thin as a paper cut, in the bottom of Flowers’s face.

I’m such a devoted web user, myself, that it feels important to me to have a presence, to be a part of that whole collective enterprise.

It never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like a party marooned by a shipwreck. That’s what a family is. Also the...

the right not to use the name if it is offensive, mischievous, ill-intentioned or inappropriate.

That’s the best thing about writing, when you’re in that zone, you’re porous, ready to absorb the solution.