Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have an hour count; sometimes I'm just happy to string a few words together. I do keep pretty rigorous hours, because otherwise you never get anything done.

My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.

All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.

When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about how the world worked and about how safe I was.

I watched my brother and my father. The truth was very different from what we learned in school. The truth was the line between the living and the dead could be, it seemed, murky and blurred.

If I had but an hour of love,if that be all that is given me,an hour of love upon this earth,I would give my love to thee.

Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?