But death we are, and death we've always been.

Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.

Sleep is your friend. Dreams are your unwelcome guests.

In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.

Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?

I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.

Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers