I’m running a battery of tests, but everything appears to have come through fully preserved.
Wonder, Is this what God feels? The rush that comes from having literally spoken a world into existence? And yes, this world already existed, but I connected us to it.
Life is too hard and too short not to be with the one you love. So choose me.
He came to lying on his back with sunlight pouring down into his face and the murmur of running water close by. There was a brilliant ache in his optic nerve, and a steady, painless throbbing at the b...
Was there even a point to the creation of books and art when humanity lived on the precipice of extinction?
So we all embark wondering what lies over the horizon, what’s around the next bend. And isn’t that, in the end, what drives us?
I know it’s crazy, but I’m holding tight to the idea that a small act of kindness can have real resonance.
He stopped listening an hour ago, when he discovered he could tune out completely as long as he interjected an I hadn’t thought of it that way or Hmm, interesting every five minutes or so.
It was the continuance of things that crushed her already broken heart. The gears of the world turning on while she lived with his absence like a black tumor in her chest, the grief so potent she coul...
Do you know how a gun works? They hurt you. They can. I shot a bullet into the back of Molly’s head so she wouldn’t be sick or sad anymore. Did it hurt her?
The box isn’t all that different from life. If you go in with fear, fear is what you’ll find.
You want to leave. Huh. Keep in mind everything I just said, and now consider that you're the only person who's successfully flown that thing. You're in possession of critical knowledge that we've spe...
Even as those five words cross my mind, I’m not exactly certain what they mean, or how to begin to consider their full weight. So I say it again. I try it on. See how it fits. This is not my world.
Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. —RAY CUMMINGS
Scream until the drug took her. 5 They started arriving after four o’clock in the afternoon. By five, Rachael’s disappearance was the lead story on all the local news stations, even in Tucson and Phoe...
The three most important people in her life are gone, and she will never see them again. The stark loneliness of that knowledge cuts her to the bone.She is forty-nine, and she wonders if this is what...
It’ll be your loss, Ethan. Day’ll come, when he’s grown and it’s too late, that you’d give a kingdom to go back and spend a single hour with your son as a boy. To hold him. Read a book to him. Throw a...
Everywhere Ethan looks, lights are coming on inside houses, the air becoming fragrant with the smell of suppers cooking. Through cracked windows, he hears clanging dishes, indistinct conversations, ov...
If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. —T. S. Eliot, Burnt Norton
It was the fakeness that killed her.
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