Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fixed tension between veering and longing, and spins helpless, exalted, in and out of that fleet blazi...

The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations.

Ten years of shadows, but no longer. Light up the darkness, Magesty.

Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the locals really believe what they are told, and do they truly revere Fat Man and Little Boy? I have been...

Simon snorted. If you ever meet the man who could take advantage of Isabelle, you'll have to let me know. I'd like to shake his hand. Or run away from him very fast, I'm not sure which.

Power is confusing for us, perhaps even terrifying, because our relationship with it had an unfortunate beginning. Someone in a position of power over us used and abused us…It seems as if power were s...

Parents shouldn't leave their kids unless —unless they've got to.

My faithful companion, Zoe Nightshade, has passed into the stars. I must have a new lieutenant. And I intend to choose one. But first, Father Zeus, I must speak to you privately.Zeus beckoned Artemis...

Michael rose to his feet and padded down the last few steps silently, came up behind Kim, and leaned over her to say, I vant to drink your blood in a heavy, fake-Dracula accent. She shrieked, flailed,...

Isabelle snorted. All the boys are gay. In this truck, anyway. Well, not you , Simon.You noticed. said Simon.I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual, added Magnus.Please never say those words in...

In the mid 1980's I was asked by an american legal institution known as the Christic Legal Institute to compile a comic book that would detail the murky history of the C.I.A., from the end of the seco...

In the case of the Younger Dryas, the jeopardy that humanity faced was not from nuclear missiles but from the incoming fragments of a disintegrating giant comet, traveling at tens of kilometers per se...

I could keep you safe, he rasped. They're all afraid of me. No one would hurt you again, or I'd kill them -Sandor Clegane

How would I explain to him that I couldn’t make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I would immediately lose my inner balance? How would I explain that one of the arms of my internal sca...

How is it different?He rolled his head back, sable hair falling down on his shoulders. With Rose I knew what to say. I could take a step back and talk to her. I remembered all the crap from the magazn...

Hi, I’m at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube.

But inside loss there can be gain, too,like the small silver spider Bela had discovered one dewy morning, curled asleep at the center of a rose.

Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way.

Aedion snorted. Hurry up with the eggs. I'm going to die of starvation.Make the bacon, or you don't get any.Aedion could hardly move fast enough.

If you tried to touch my woman she'd break your dick off like a twig then stick it up your arse.