Just last year, I had to read the old Indian epic, the Mahabharata. Inspired by it, I wished I had been named Draupadi. After all, she, too, had been born differently, even abnormally. She had...

If you expect the worse, you’re only denying someone a chance to be better

I often dream of you.

You have to be a two people; a saint and a sinner

But maybe that’s what the dead do. They stay. They linger. Benign and sweet and painful. They don’t need us. They echo all by themselves.

Come on,” I say, “let’s go be star-crossed lovers and court disaster.

He can see what move I’m planning to make in chess and counters before I can do it. He always knows who the killer is in a detective story. I think he could make a...

than watch them destroy you because of me.

If Sean’s voice is layers of wood, and Mina Ma’s is the voice a copper pot, then Mathew Mercer’s is the voice of a wild animal. I suddenly think of a movie Ammara and I...