It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.

It's a wonderful sort of feeling when people want to spend more time in a world you created.

Have you ever thought about it, about simply leaving? Really, truly thought about it with the intent to follow through and not as a dream or a passing fancy?

The Burgess sisters arrived together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.

It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance.

Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.

I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can.