Somewhere, beyond blackness, some tyrant host swaps breathing for airlessness to test me. I had no concept of myself, no link to the things I knew. It is hard to explain the lack of anything...

Beyond the boundaries of herself, her parents and the enclosing garden walls, were open fields and other waiting places she still knew nothing of – lies of the land, perhaps. What Katie did know is...

I used to love lulling, running water – a sound so infrequent in cityscapes. Its loss always made me feel lonely when I lived amongst concrete.

I’ve always thought that the best moments can come from the worst times.

It was all changing. All of it. And it was horrible and it was lovely.

Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.

On some days she was able to see both sun and moon at the same time. Like feuding cousins, they hung in two corners of the vast world-ceiling refusing to look at one another. The...

Truth starts with a sense.

I suffered my own battles. I suffer still.

Grumman provided the excuse and Nader provided the pain.