Irritation for some men was their response to strain.

How we remember changes how we have lived. Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.

The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.

Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.

... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.

Do you know the wish of your heart?" - The Darkest Road

She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.