The netherworld is timeless and unchanging, and boring -- much like a doctor's waiting room.
Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.
Children see magic because they look for it.
All killer whales are named Kevin. You knew that, right?
It's very difficult to stay angry when a room full of bald guys in orange robes start giggling. Buddhism.
. . . And so Charlie Asher . . . led an army of fourteen-inch-tall bundles of animal bits, armed with everything from knitting needles to a spork, into the storm sewers of San Fransciso.