Each of the five tribes claims to have been the victorious attacker. Each recalls the slaughter with relish. Each believes it was ordained by their own god as righteous vengeance, because of the unhol...
Don't let them suffer too much. If they have to die, let it be fast. You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.
Creating some god for one's inspirations was always a good way to avoid accusations of pride should the scheme succeed, as well as the blame if did not.
China does not exist. Nevertheless, she longs to be there.
Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs we...
Children believe that everything bad that happens is somehow their fault.
Charis tried not to mind, since nothing that was or had been would perish, and the farm was still inside her, it was still hers because places belonged to the people who loved them.
Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.
Can a single ant be said to be alive, in any meaningful sense of the word, or does it only have relevance in terms of its anthill?
By the time he got around to meaning it, the words had sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been afraid to pronounce them.
By now you know: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to your leaders. Even I--unused to your ways though I am--would never make that mistake. We ourselves have such beings...
By contrast, no one in Alphinland ever demanded a blowjob. But then, no one in Alphinland had a toilet either. Toilets weren’t necessary. Why waste time on that kind of routine bodily function when th...
Buttered, I lie on my single bed, flat, like a piece of toast. I
But reality has too much darkness in it. Too many crows
But not, surely, for the first time in human history. How many others have stood in this place? Left behind, with all gone, all swept away. The dead bodies evaporating like slow smoke; their loved and...
But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hours, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell...
But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you’ve made it this far, please remember: you will never be subject to the temptation or feeling you must forgive, a man, as a woman. It’s di...
But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you've made it this far, please remember: you will never be subjected to the temptation of feeling you must forgive, a man, as a woman.
But all doors used regularly are doors to the afterlife.
Boys by nature require these silences; they must not be startled by too many words, spoken too quickly. What they actually say is not that important. The important parts exist in the silences between...