As infants we know what we want. And we’re not afraid to cry about it. A strong personal identity is like infancy: In time we might grow out of it. Some people’s strong personal identities are maintained by a good family. Other people’s personal identities are weakened by bad parenting and unchec...
The first ground rule was that they had to have an entirely different cosmology from her other supernatural stories. She and I spent many weeks emailing back and forth, sharing copious detailed notes. We had several energetic lunches and dinners, whence we discussed the foundation and framework o...
Joe, Mary, Leah, Eve. I lived with the selfish attitude that they were my possessions, my dolls. Their blood, their memories. All mine. But before I got to their house I saw Nell, the Pale Girl I’d seen with the Dark Man, Lowen. I noticed her because she was watching me. No one saw me unless I le...
a voice spoke from somewhere within this stellar soup, a voice that she had not heard in over two hundred years. Before she could recall who it was, another familiar voice called out, “Key! Key!” These two voices encircled her like echoes in a cave. Tudwal could hear them, too; his ears perked up...
The first ground rule was that they had to have an entirely different cosmology from her other supernatural stories. She and I spent many weeks emailing back and forth, sharing copious detailed notes. We had several energetic lunches and dinners, whence we discussed the foundation and framework o...
And when they built the Necropolis Castle, they began by building the dungeon on top of the Old Catacombs, to prevent them from ever being knocked down in the future – for Dwarves truly cherish maintaining history and saving ancient secrets. The castle was built so long ago that, by the time Key ...
The Red Man went with me. I had started calling him, “Red,” and I was beginning to enjoy his company very much. Yes, I was glad that he was by my side. He was a good helper and friend. Together we flew in his Kharetie spaceship to New Orleans. It was the season of Mardi Gras. The streets were thr...