the memory of it hooks & tears. One recalls its stairs and galleries and the light of its windows with a sentiment like that of half-waking memories on clear autumn mornings… I found then that I prepared my limbs
Ludelphia stuffs her fabric scraps and her precious needle into the pocket of her burlap-sack dress so she can cross the river on the barge that’s linked to a cable to the other side of the river. Her
“and the prophet sings not of the end of the world but of what has been done and what will be done and what is being done to some but not others, that the world is always ending over and over again in one place but not another and that the end of the world is always a local ...
for the holidays the way I usually do — via a plane filled with folks of indeterminate COVID status talking and coughing and breathing around me for 8 hours — and no point to being a disease vector to the friends and family that I visit. Or to getting it myself in the U.S., bei...
Unshielded crew half-Life is 24 hours.The most expensive lie in human history. I am not here for a safari. All of Europa's life will soon be known, mapped, and exhausted of wonder. Bound by the tedious constraints of physics and biology. I know these things too well. They are ...
friendship: suffice it that I am unmoved in my opinions, as I am attached to my memories. Towards the middle of my stay in Rome, PrincesseBorghèsearrived: I was charged with taking her some shoes from Paris. I was presented to her; she completed her toilette in front of me: the ...
But what makes particular memories feel important enough to share with him and now us? Joy was the world’s finest co-pilot, right up until she passed. I got little P-Nutt so Joy would have a buddy as I got more involved in writing. She hated the little squirt, but finally realized...
"It has taken me all of this time to understand that I fell too. I looked into the heart of darkness and I saw no evil." Generations had come and gone and here stood this mighty dragon still stuck in a past mistake. "You cannot blame yourself for not knowing that John was bad." ...
Butch is in a coma for three days and has vague memories of Marissa caring for him and keeping him clinging to life, but he assumes it was all a dream until he sees her asleep on a pallet in a corner of the room, where she's been sleeping in case he crashes again and another bed...
I don't need to go to the health club or gym for any of this. It's something that I do all day every day now, not just two hours a day, twice a week. That was less than four months ago. Today I don't take ANY pain medication, and I lift, carry, walk, and do more than...