He sat in his dwelling alone, watching through the window, seeing children at play, citizens bicycling home from uneventful days at work, ordinary lives free of anguish because he had been selected, a...
From across the room, Mama watched them,
But what happened to those things? Snow, and the rest of it? Climate Control. Snow made growing food difficult, limited the agricultural periods. And unpredictable weather made transportation almost i...
But somehow the small red-painted sled had become a symbol of courage and hope.
But perhaps it was only an echo.
But how did you know? How did you know the pilot was lost? I didn’t. I used my wisdom, from the memories. I knew that there had been times in the past—terrible times—when people had destroyed others i...
Boy, said Anastasia, you know what I wish? I wish that everybody who loved each other would die at exactly the same time. Then nobody would ever have to miss anyone.Well, said her father slowly, it ju...
Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo.
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Annemarie’s silvery blond hair flew behind her,
Annemarie admitted to herself, snuggling there in the quiet dark, that she was glad to be an ordinary person who would never be called upon for courage.
And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.
Always better, less rude, to talk about things that were the same.
Although he had through the memories learned about the pain of loss and loneliness, now he gained too, an understanding of solitude and its joy.
All of it-all the things they had thought through so meticulously- fell apart
All of his strength and blood and breath were entering the earth now. His brain and spirit became part of the earth. He rose. He floated above, weightless, watching his human self labor and writhe. He...
Age is a meaningless commodity in most instances.
AFFABLE means good-natured and friendly. There are whole groups of people who are known for being affable. Cheerleaders, for example. Or Mormon missionaries.
Now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow - moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhe...
She looked into the face of the soldier