A Short Story Is The Ultimate Close-up

Things Need Not Have Happened To Be True. Tales And Adventures Are The Shadow Truths That Will Endure When Mere Facts Are Dust And Ashes And Forgotten.

I Lay On The Bed And Lost Myself In Stories. I Liked That. Books Were Safer Than Other People Anyways.

Death Is The Second Oldest Of The Endless. It's Hard Not To Love Her. She Loves You, After All.

It's Not Sipping Wine. It's A Mourning Wine. You Drain It. Like This.

Some Of The Things Are The Same No Matter Which World You're In, Kid. One Of 'em Is This: The Quickest Way Out Of Something Is Usually Straight Through It.