Wanting neither too much to live, nor too much to die.

I can start the rain. Bring thunder. Bring lightning. Want to see?

Generosity is never out of season.

Tempus would be protected, better shielded from whatever the Stepson thought threatening, if love could heal and save.

Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls.

When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting with Homer and up through Shakespeare and Milton, the most important themes to tackle are those of the mythopoeic domain, tales of the body and mind seen through a temperament and a cosmos divorced from current reality so what is said can be more clear.

Sometimes a man does what he'd most like to avoid.