Which is worse, hell or nothing?

These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.

Cults make people sing so hard for so long - because it over-oxygenates the blood and sets them up to faint.

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

The body ages. grows. passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die essentially the same person. That... that is proof of your deathless soul.

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.