Petrichord: the sound of water sliding over smooth stone.
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...
Wisely reconsidered and let the hand
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...
But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.
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...
Superstitions are just coincidence or ignorance.
Disse Serena.
You got one choice at the beginning, but if you didn't choose right..things got narrow real quick.
Rachel kneeled beside Jacob. She took the child's hand and pressed it to the dirt. Her father had told Rachel that Harmons had been on this land since before the Revolutionary War. Don't ever forget w...
It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.
I listened to time clicking like hooves on pavement. But time isn't something you can rein in. It moves on without pause, taking us with it no matter how much we wish it otherwise.
I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries an...
The worst thing the nineteen sixties did to this country was introduce drugs to rednecks,
The world is ripe, and we'll pluck it like an apple from a tree.
Nietzsche once said that for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. I didn’t believe that, but to willfully defy the quote was to tempt fate—and if to find it true, to know nothi...
It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start
I missed that one,' Henryson said. 'The war, I mean.''Don't worry,' Snipes said. 'Another one's always coming down the pike. That's something all your historians and philosophers agree on. A feller ov...
Do this one thing.
Dead and still in the world was worse than dead and in the ground. Dead in the ground at least gave you the hope of heaven.