Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.

The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would...

This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.

It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.

It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one’s self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To...