My life has a certain amusing symmetry, if viewed with sufficient detachment.
No children? Emilio asked them one evening, to his own surprise. Nope. Turned out, we don't breed well in captivity, George said, unembarrassed.
No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.
No one who does not live with constant pain can imagine the toll it takes. The way it grinds you down. The sheer damnable tedium of it.
Not just survival but a good life, full of learning, full of love, Emilio thought, and took a step closer to the death he felt inside himself. He
Your Holiness, we are more than prepared to concede that overpopulation alone is not the sole cause of poverty and misery, Giuliani began. Fatuous oligarchies, Gelasius suggested. Ethnic paranoia. Whi...
Eternal beginner, starting over and over in a new place in new circumstances, with new languages, new people, a new commission. They had this in common: the continual rushed confrontation with change,...
On December 7, 2059, Emilio Sandoz was released from the isolation ward of Salvator Mundi Hospital in the middle of the night and transported in a bread van to the Jesuit residence at Number 5 Borgo S...
Once I told Ha�anala about the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. . . . I told her how Abraham bargained with God for the lives of ten righteous men who might have lived there. She said to me, �Abraham sho...
Wide is the gate and broad is the path that leads to destruction and many go that way
You’ve seen what, Emilio conceded, but not why! That’s where God is, Anne. In the why of it—in the meaning.
Our physicists have confirmed the practicality of using an altered asteroid for transport,
Tradition was safety; change was danger.
Religion – the wishful thinking of an ape that talks! You know what I think?’ he asked rhetorically, trying to distract himself from yet another death. ‘Random shit happens, and we turn it into storie...
Ringo's chuckle got tangled up with a cough. He tossed back a shot, cleared his throat, and said, Politics, from the Latin. , meaning 'many.' meaning 'bloodsucking little bastards.
Sadie was at his side when the old desire to leave everything behind rose up in him again.Suppose . . . he began. Suppose . . .Then he moved on, one last time.
Sailing is the perfect antidote for age, Reyes. Everything you do on a sailboat is done slowly and thoughtfully. Most of the time, an old body is entirely capable of doing whatever needs to be done wh...
Say what you will about Mormons, but they are very fine dancers.
Shall I tell you why young men love war? . . . In peace, there are a hundred questions with a thousand answers! In war, there is only one question with one right answer. . . . Going to war makes you a...
What unnatural words. Always and forever! Those aren't human words, Jim. Not even stones are always and forever.
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