On the other hand, even a big, '80s love van was less noticeable than six flying kids and their talking dog. So there you go.

It's okay, Ig." said Fang. "Just give it your best shot." Sometimes the Fangster is incredibly supportive, just not with me.

I still felt like I might hurl, and I thought about how awful that would be in midair.

Louisiana, the state road maintenance forgot.

Sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality.

A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that's great, but not everybody is Gabriel Garcia Marquez or James Joyce. A lot of people like to pretend that they are, and they wind up not giving people a good read or enlightening them.

A classroom . People trying to stick me in classrooms was becoming as predictable and annoying as people trying to kill me, but with less-fun results.