Once everyone thought you were crazy, they ignored you even when you told the truth.

As he had kissed her neck, she could not repress the feeling she was a lamb making time with a wolf.

If he had to spend the evening with madwomen, he would prefer at least one of them be willing to let him grope her.

Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of...

He kissed her forehead and drifted into an uneasy sleep, listening to the soft snoring of the creature on his chest, one he loved slightly more than he had come to fear.

If I can alter my perception of the reality, I can change the reality itself.

Mrs. Kaspar” sounded too like a phone solicitor, which would not do after having kissed the circumference of her son’s neck.

It is a challenge to love someone who does not see the divine as you do, and much harder still to date someone who considers your spirituality a design flaw in an otherwise worthwhile human...

I’m too self-centered to be constructive, so I have to open a vein…

It is not easy to find someone your size once the Freshman Fifteen turns to the Sophomore Forty or the Senior Sixty. Even when, through some miracle of self-restraint and bulimia, college girls managed to...

The witch who claims to forbear her magick for fear of causing the next Indian tsunami is really saying that she is powerful enough to kill thousands of innocent strangers when all she meant to...

I’m a holiday Christian at best and I’d never given much thought to demons. They were an adult version of the boogieman hiding in every kid’s closet.

The aliens, as you call them, come from within you and within the Earth. This is why they resemble you, because they have to owing to the limitations of human imagination. They are a reflection...

The seed of an urban legend find fertile soil at the corner of tragedy and imagination.

She could not keep his death in her head, like when she tried to imagine the infiniteness of the universe and nearly swooned at the vastness of the thought.

He relented to the kiss and gave of himself what she required, his lips parting in symmetry with hers until the moment of realization collapsed.

Take it with a whole shaker of salt, a grain won’t be close to enough.

Private moments held not a candle to coitus, not even the expensive kind of candle that made the whole room smell of far off seasons.

Most magick I have experienced can be written off as a stew of psychology and coincidence, and I truly believe this is where magick is best worked.

Now that this destiny was about to happen, every instinct within him fought against it, realizing he had been fetishizing suicide.

She did not arrive at Annandale without taking the chisel to herself more than once, without rubbing up against a few boys to smooth an edge or two.

If you do not need something that it is still useful, give it to someone who will appreciate it before you douse it in lighter fluid in hopes Santa Odin will put a new one...

He’s the kind of kid who, just looking at him, you know gets bullied by the older boys and takes it out on everyone who is either weaker than him or required to refrain from...

If you knew the mercy I am showing by not dismembering you where you stand for getting in my way, you would not stop thanking me.

I tried turning my back on all this, but it is inside me. Like when I was little and you read me that story of the girl who hated footprints and shadows, so she tried...

If you get enough people believing one thing, it’s like reality bends itself to allow that to exist.

Ashlei was free to spout off how much she loved her savior because Jesus was not about to rear back and tell her He did not quite feel the same way, that He had died...

If psychics are real, it implies that the universe is far vaster and stranger than conventional perception would state. If psychics can talk to the dead, that removes the sting of mortality and loss. It...

She was not suicidal; that is what people never managed to grasp. Cutting relieved the pressure and stood as some enduring demonstration of her emotion, some way to be in control of a body that...

A lonely person on a college campus is never more than a few minutes and a bad decision from company.

The demons are not easily dispatched, instead attaching themselves to otherwise beautiful things, a favorite food or a love note left for you, to see how you react when they rear up.

She mourned the history that the invisible intruder had erased, but not enough that she would spend a second more of her future feeling the emptiness.

Maybe it is like Pascal’s Wager, but I want to believe in the immortality of the soul because consciousness is such a fantastic gift that is feels cruel and unfair to end it so quickly.

Ethically, she couldn’t cause the suffering of any living thing. Logically, bacon cheeseburgers were delicious.

A modern culture built on the back of dying gods immerses me.

Like any man, he had no real protection from an unsolicited kiss from a pretty woman, even one he had just murdered.

Natural law has decreed it so. Isn’t death as much a part of the flow as life? Why fight it? Because maybe the flow splashes into a bottomless pit past that blind turn.

I know for a fact the first UFOs reported in modern times, just before the crash at Roswell, were boomerang shaped and were reported as ‘flying saucers’ to describe the motion of their flight, like...

Roselyn adored the scent of sex, the wafting aroma of angel fontanels before they earn their halos.

Our brains want God even as our minds debunk the divine.

She kissed him… long enough he could almost hear her thoughts. Long enough that he began to know her story, know what she had been through.

Vampires did not avoid mirrors because they cast no reflection but because mirrors became so unflattering with the illusion of fuzzy focus wrenched away.

If you think it is spiritual to burn food in front of starving people in hopes that your gods will bring this back to you in triplicate, you are missing the point and sowing animosity...

Her mother admonished through closed lips, the sound a mother can make mean anything from “pick up your socks” to “we are very disappointed you have murdered those orphans.

It was as though he had secrets, and he wanted you to know he would keep them for the pleasure of depriving you of their taste.

They may have been rightly overbearing in her formative years, but they also loved Roselyn enough to trust she needed dreams more than realities.

Humanity expects there to be vast conspiracies, even if they will not admit it in polite company. It is understood shadowy conspirators must thereby be somewhere.

enough people disagree with what Jesus is to prevent Him from…from manifesting, as such. And billions don’t believe He existed at all. He is a legend, a myth. A Jewish carpenter people ignore while committing...

Pagans can be just as monstrous as any other group. They can be murderers, rapists, pedophiles. We need to accept that they are our problem and deal with them. We need to speak against their...

She harbored the childhood presumption that the truly scary things could only find her in the night.