The Cloud Maze. “ An Excursion in Dimension A Climb Though the Firmament; There Is No Beginning There Is No End Enter Where You Please Leave When You Wish Have No Fear of Falling

I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated.

If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.

I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.

How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?” Celia asks after a while. “Very carefully,” Marco answers.

And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read in archaic books with crackling spines.

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.