I don’t really remember what computer screens looked like,
Dear friends, I find myself immeasurably weary and I have gone to rest in the forest.
Mornings: he liked to read a novel while he ate breakfast. It was possibly the most civilized habit Clark had ever encountered.
He’s got a terrible marriage and doesn’t want to go home, and don’t ask how I know that, everyone knows when you’ve got a terrible marriage, it’s like having bad breath, you get close enough to a pers...
They acted because they loved acting, but also, let’s be honest here, to be noticed. All they wanted was to be seen.
Stick to musicians. I think we’re generally saner.
She was thinking about the way she’d always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days or unseen and infrequently thought of. How without any one of these pe...
No more reading and commenting on the lives of others, and in so doing, feeling slightly less alone in the room.
Miranda opened her eyes in time to see the sunrise. A wash of violent color, pink and streaks of brilliant orange, the container ships on the horizon suspended between the blaze of the sky and the wat...
If nothing else, it’s pleasant to consider the possibility.
I wish I could tell you how sorry I am, Elizabeth says, but you’ve already told me to stop apologizing.It’s just an awful thing to do.I don’t think I’m an awful person, Elizabeth says.No one ever thin...
Are you asking if I believe in ghosts?I don't know. Maybe. Yes.Of course not. Imagine how many there'd be.Yes, Kirsten said, that's exactly it.
AN INCOMPLETE LIST: No more diving into pools of chlorinated water lit green from below. No more ball games played out under floodlights. No more porch lights with moths fluttering on summer nights. N...
Then came a virus like an avenging angel, unsurvivable, a microbe that reduced the population of the fallen world by, what? There were no more statisticians by then, my angels, but shall we say ninety...
The broken-windows theory of urban-crime management, the way the appearance of dereliction can pave the way for more serious crimes.
We long only to go home,’ Kirsten said. This was from the first issue, Station Eleven. A face-off between Dr. Eleven and an adversary from the Undersea. ‘We dream of sunlight, we dream of walking on...
This one's my other favorite. 'He's successful in interfacing with clients we already have, but as for new clients, it's low-hanging fruit. He takes a high-altitude view, but he doesn't drill down to...
This is going to seem bitter but I don't mean it that way, V., I'm just stating a fact here: you'll only ever call me if I call you first. Have you noticed that? If I call and leave a message you'll c...
There were a number of impractical shoes, stilettos mostly, beautiful and strange.
That's the thing I like about birthdays, they stay in one place.