We are past the end of things now, but I don't want to leave.

This was a normal town once, and we were normal people. Most of us worked at the plastics factory on the outskirts of town. Then one day there was an accident... something escaped from the factory, a...

This is the first family dinner I ever had, she said. The first of many, Evie promised.

There's nothing you could have done that would cause me to cease loving either of you. Will is myself, my own soul, and if I am not to have the keeping of your heart, then there is not other I would r...

The true power lies with you.

The author cites researcher David Howard's idea of post-traumatic growth. Howard contends that some individuals faced with a traumatic event actually develop new strength.

Stay Longer and you will hear the beginning of your death

She's on the stairs, ma'am, getting her breath,' said the young servant, who had not been long up from the country, where my mother had the excellent habit of getting all her servants. Often she had s...

She nestled against him, already limp and relaxed. With a tremulous little sigh, she curled her fist against his chest.Aidan had to force himself to relax. He held himself very still, tempering the de...

She knew she was overextended, but she couldn't help herself. Student, tree lover, citizen of the Earth, she was busier than ever as she raced through Berkeley on her bicycle, and stood on street corn...

Seriously? Kissing her right now is what we need to be doing when we have pissed-off aliens on us?Kissing her is always the right thing to do.

Sadie, I can't intervene. He turned up his palms in frustration. I told you when we first met, this isn't an actual physical body.Shame, I mumbled.What?Nothing. Go on.

SITTING TIGHT? Holing up? Waiting for answers? Those are things I'm not good at. Planning a massive attack against mechanical geeky-like things when i was already furious and itching to kill something...

Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.

Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless - it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or...

Orion nodded, then asked, Dwarf cheese?Cheese made by dwarfs.Oh, said Orion, relieved. They make it. It’s not actually . . .No. What a horrible thought.Exactly.

My grandmother is a little Cuban woman who cooks all day and speaks Spanish. Your grandmother watches pay-per-view porn.She used to watch the Weather Channel, but she said there wasn't enough action.-...

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

Mr. Grace sounded like a very small child, helpless, hopeless. I had made him fuck himself with his own big tool, like one of those weird experiences you read about in the Penthouse Forum. I had taken...

It will happen soon. Someday you will find yourself surrounded by people with the exact same interests as you, and you will never feel out of place again, I say, already wary of the incredible lie I a...