Don't love anything that can be taken away.
She walks in beauty.
Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.
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
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...
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...
You Men notice so little Pemberton, Physical strength is your genders sole advantage - Serena
You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.
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
An image came back to him with such vividness that it might have been framed before him in glass
She’d never known fear had a taste, but it did.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The world lies all before us.
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...