Fiction
Only a Moment
"Someone built a bridge to the future and set up a toll booth with an unusual price: you had to swear off all your convictions, beliefs, and prejudices before you could go over."
The Apple
"Rodger felt that his affection was a force of its own, driven not by his will, but through it––that his will was the vehicle which his affection took, and the force by which it threatened to undo him."
Sphinxes
"It was always in mirrors that we contrived to see another world, because what we really wanted to see was a world that reflected our own. How shocking and disturbing then, when it was discovered one day that it was not through mirrors but through chalkboards that another world was to be found."
Book Lovers
"Reading redeems the book. Sink your teeth into it, tear it apart, let the words roll across your tongue. As you chew on the ideas, the paper turns back into pulp. It's rebirth. Absorption into the bloodstream is absolution."
The Desert Witch
"Our village sits at the edge of the desert. The days burn hot and long, and in winter the nights sit cold and lonely. There is a fever which comes to our people, a sickness that rides upon the night air and enters the lungs of the sleeping. Like a beast on the hunt, it usually finds the weakest for its victims. Some say evil spirits bring the fever."
Scarecrow Man
"There is more to a good scarecrow than old clothes and straw. The shape of the head, the paint on the face, the posture of the back and arms––these are all important considerations. A bad scarecrow makes a mock of a farmer ... A good scarecrow is a piece of witchcraft..."
The Ice Men
"There hadn't been a winter for years now. In February, the last glaciers from the first ice age melted, and the Ice Men came down out of the hills and mountains on the backs of woolly mammoths. There were more of them than we thought."