We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times was till I left, but I guess that's the way of it
You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.
Another memory comes, not of the final time I saw Ligeia but a week before she disappeared, something mundane yet vivid. The mystery of memory. There's surely some scientific explanation for why the b...
Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better
Libenter homines id quad volunt credunt. Men are glad to believe that which they wish for? Miss Calicut asked. Professor
Having shot down a number, some of which were anly wounded, the whole flock swept repeatedly around their prostrate companions, and again settled on a low tree, within twenty yards of the spot where I...
What about you, Snipes? Dunbar asked. You think there to be mountain lions up here or is it just folks' imaginings?Snipes pondered the question a few moments before speaking.They's many a man of scien...
She walks in beauty.
A brown trout sips one off the surface. Beneath the trout, mica-flecked sand gleams white. Come fall the female's caudal fin will nudge the grains to make a nest, the eggs spilling like pearls into a...
What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less...
Then it became clear that it was a song, the loneliest sort of song because the notes changed so little, like one bird calling and waiting for another to answer. It was as lonely a sound as she’d ever...
Then her mind had wandered into a place she could not follow, taking with it all the people she knew, their names and connections, whether they still lived or whether they’d died. But her body lingere...
Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.
His great-aunt had been born on this land, lived on it eight decades, and knew it as well as she knew her husband and children. That was what she’d always claimed, and could tell you to the week when...
He’d watched the old man live his life by the signs. Whether a moon waxed or waned decided when the crops were planted and harvested, the hogs slaughtered and the timber cut, even when a hole was best...
An image came back to him with such vividness that it might have been framed before him in glass
A kind of annihilation, was what Serena called their coupling, and though Pemberton would never have thought to describe it that way, he knew her words had named the thing exactly.
You are not quite ready yet, though. For the next six months, practice until your arms ache and your lips bleed. The suffering will be good for you. A slight smile crossed the conductor's face. If you...
You Men notice so little Pemberton, Physical strength is your genders sole advantage - Serena
Some claim heaven has streets of gold and all such things, but I hold a different notion. When we’re there, we’ll say to the angels, why, a lot of heaven’s glory was in the place we come from. And you...