The plane banked, and he pressed his face against the cold window. The ocean tilted up to meet him, its dark surface studded with points of light that looked like constellations, fallen stars. The tourist...

Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.

The moonlight covered the tombstones with an ethereal glow, and the statues above the tombs stood like silent guards waiting for something to happen.

Though angels were easy to finds in cemeteries, she said that she didn’t especially care for funereal angels and tombstone cherubs — she wanted her angels among the living, not watching over the already dead...

It’s like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world.

The noble old synagogue had been profaned and turned into a stable by the Nazis, and left open to the elements by the Communists, at least after they had briefly employed it as a ‘furniture...