Okay, Loren said. Anything else? It was like a shadow fell over his face. Eldon? Yeah, he said. There’s something else. I don’t like the way you said that. I don’t like saying it, believe me. But I th...
I might be good at what I do, but despite the fact that King’s Cross station is indeed where Harry Potter headed off for Hogwarts, I do not possess an invisibility cloak.
I kept hearing that better to have loved and lost bullshit. Another falsehood. Trust me, it is not better. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down
Each writer had a bedroom in the main house and a shack or work cottage in which to write. We all met up for dinner at night. That was it. There was no Internet, no TV, no phones, yes lights, but no m...
Did tragedy cause fissures, open them wider--or did tragedy merely turn on the light so you could see the fissure that had always been there?
Death sucks. Death sucks, mostly because it forces those who stay behind to survive. Death isn’t merciful enough to take you too. Instead, death constantly jams down your throat the awful lesson that...
Chloe barked at a movement in the bush. A squirrel sprinted across the street. Chloe growled and feigned a chase. The squirrel stopped and turned back toward us. Chloe barked a boy-you’re-lucky-I’m-on...
A dancer on break approached him. She smiled. Each tooth was angled in a different direction, as if her mouth were the masterwork of a mad orthodontist. Hi, she said. Hi. You're really cute. I don't h...
It be nicer to think your parents, who worked hard, gave you those presents instead of some creepy stranger?
You may want to know if Tyrese ever goes down to Florida and what happens to TJ and Latisha. You may be wondering if Shauna and Linda stay together and what that means to Mark. But I can’t tell any of...
You learn a lot about relationships when your job, in some ways, is to break them up. But the truth is, almost every relationship has breaking points. Every relationship has fissures and cracks. That...
Three days ago, I was a dedicated doctor sleepwalking through my own life. Since then, I had seen a ghost, gotten emails from the dead, had become a suspect in not one but two murders, was on the run...
There was an old joke about being left on a deserted island with an editor. You are starving. All you have left is a glass of orange juice. Days pass. You are near death. You are about to drink the ju...
There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy.
The rule of thumb in student files seemed to be, If you have nothing negative to say, don't say anything at all.
Telling someone who was clinically depressed, for example, to shake it off and get out of the house was tantamount to telling a man with two broken legs to sprint across the room. That was all well an...
Right now, even though he'd been dead for years, she wanted to collapse in her father's big arms and hear him tell her that everything would be all right. Do we ever outgrow that need?
Or maybe it’s a ploy to get more sex. She gave him a look that curled his chopsticks. Maybe it’s working, she said. Maybe I’ll slip into something more comfortable, he said. Not that Batman mask again...
My love for you is like diarrhea, Sunglasses said. I just can’t hold it in.
My great-grandfather, Dad often told us, saved his best wines for special occasions. He was killed when the Nazis invaded Paris. The Nazis ended up drinking his wine. Lesson: you never wait. When I wa...