If death is truly a curse,' Spock said, as soberly as some power pronouncing a hundred years of sleep, but with a glint of private, serene humor in his eyes. 'There is little logic in condemning something one has not experienced...or does not remember experiencing.

A warp," Nita whispered. "A tunnel through space-time. Are you a white hole?" It stopped bobbing, stared at her as if she had said something derogatory. (Do I look like a hole?)

Belief made no difference to the truth.

It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow

"Don't be afraid to make corrections," Picchu said. "Don't be afraid to lend a hand." She fell silent, seeming to think for a moment. "And don't look down."

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

A little science. A little magic. A little chicken soup.