Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to B...
A man with no memory is interesting, while a man with sad memories can’t be buried fast enough.
If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve the man but deteriorate the cat— Now
I’m too exhausted to sleep,
I subscribe to the tea-kettle theory of art, she’d responded. Open the valve and the energy escapes.
I hated and loved him in turns, as witches will do, for our hearts are strange and inexplicable.
The scent of overpriced coffee was like the armpit of God.
Sometimes God needs a sacrifice. Sometimes the road is complicit. No life is sacrosanct.
Were like plaque in the arteries of the imagination, they clogged the sense of what was possible. Maybe
It’s one of those stories that needs tellin’ because it’s heavy, Tom said. Tellin’ it makes it easier to carry.
Children often didn’t notice the things adults classified as disastrous. The opposite, Whitcomb thought, was also true.
The Cinderella Game Kelly Link
Everything spoken on this earth contains a truth not always apparent at the time.
We look about in puzzlement at our world, with a sense of unease and disquiet. We think of ourselves as scholars in arcane liturgies, single men trapped in worlds beyond our devising. The truth is far...
This story is about the eschatology of shadow puppets.
Moral: If at first you don’t succeed, invent fire. Or hire a chef. Preferably one with imagination. Jane Yolen,
—Only fools and the dead never change their mind.
The beer got him, and, for a moment, a rush of idiot compassion urged him to hug a pinch-faced man in brown overalls who sat on a stool surrounded by primitive paintings of Jesus engaged in various fa...
Love that can’t trump intellectual integrity isn’t worth the name.
In the distance, over the cusp of the planets, a primordial paused, its mammoth body shimmering itself into perception. As I watched it, a dreadful certainty gripped me: this was how Gramps was trappe...
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