What are the gifts given to we who live Below?””Long life, health, strength, and happiness.””What is the curse of those who live Above?””Short life, illness, weakness, and misery.””Is this fair?””It is fair. It is as...

Everyone dies. The don’t all have the chance to see what they wanted most. At least I’ve seen the Above. At least I’ve known True.

You know” – Hale’s breath was warm against Kat’s ear in the chilly ballroom- “I don’t know that both of us really have to be here….” The slide changed. While hundreds of mathematicians waited with...

And I’ll tell her that I don’t want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing.

She wraps her arms around me and speaks in my ear. Words just for me–the poetry of I love you–to keep me warm in the cold. With them she turns me back from ash and...

I’ll go over again and again until I’ve finally crossed to where he is