Let the spirits witness: for theirs is the knowledge of the future - both what it would be, and what I will: You are the Queen of the Damned, that's what you are! Evil is your only destiny. But at your greatest hour, it is I who will defeat you. Look well on my face. It is I who will bring you down.

A story of remarkable simplicity and charm. A young swimmer invites us into sea off the coast of California where through her eyes we see an entire realm of creatures we have never known so intimately before. Truly for people of all ages, Lynne Cox's adventure with the baby whale, Grayson, becomes a parable and an experience, thanks not only to the author's great and generous spirit, but through her immense gift for describing nature.

Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.

Everything we do in life, we do with certain expectations.

The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.

Don't you see? It is a new age. It requires a new evil. And I am that new evil.

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.