There is another dangerous component to armed robberies, one that I could never understand. I noticed some time ago that with each robbery I committed there was an intense out of control anger that gr...
The day before the Queen's Ball, Father had a visitor--a very young girl with literary aspirations, someone Lord Lytton had recommended visit Father and sent over–and while Father was explaining to he...
Rowan lifted his eyebrows. She nodded. That will never stop being strange, Aedion muttered.Deal with it, she told him, carrying the suit into the bedroom. Let's go hunt ourselves a pretty little demon...
Old Campion had once said he believed - he positively believed, with shudders - that Christopher desired to live in the spirit of Christ. That had seemed horrible to the general, but Mark did not see...
Like the legends of Kon-Tiki Viracocha [...], the South American civilizing hero, white-skinned and bearded like Quetzalcoatl and the Apkallu sages [...], who was said to have come to the Andes during...
Jeg trodde Auschwitz var helvete på jord og at ingenting kunne bli verre. Der tok jeg feil. Auschwitz var et organisert helvete. Krematoriene fungerte. Likene ble ikke liggende på appellplassen. Warsz...
I'm not a monster, I'd told her, back when I said I would never hurt Oak. But maybe being a monster was my calling.
I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a better...
For Anne to take things calmly would have been to change her nature. All 'spirit and fire and dew,' as she was, the pleasures and pains of life came to her with trebled intensity. Marilla felt this an...
Butler snapped his fingers. Focus, Artemis! Time enough for your Atlantis Complex later. We have the Atlantis outside that door and six miles of water above it. If you want to stay alive, you need to...
As she stood before Aragorn she paused suddenly and looked upon him, and her eyes were shining. And he looked down upon her fair face and smiled; but as he took the cup, his hand met hers, and he knew...
Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.
Most of us cluster somewhere in the middle of most statistical distributions. But there are lots of bell curves, and pretty much everyone is on a tail of at least one of them. We may collect strange m...
The way contemporary literature is emerging, soon we can expect "Item poetry" in novels.
A preoccupation with power - black power, student power, flower power, poor power, 'the power structure' - is the striking aspect of the American political scene at the moment. Oddly enough, obsession...
A few years after working on Mauna Kea, I discovered that I had radiation sickness
Please accept this sandwich as a gesture of solidarity.
While astronomers have been exploring outer Space, I have been exploring inner space.
Being present is being connected to All Things.
Success in America comes in over a million flavors... all you have you have to do is try one.