To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.

Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot.

Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts.

It was always difficult to get cattle returned once a marriage was dissolved.

This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight of a phone book. The pain is not great, but the symbolism is disagreeable.

The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.