I remember liking to write stories pretty early on. In fourth or fifth grade, they would give us the beginning of a story, and we were supposed to finish it. I remember liking that. But I didn't think about deciding to become a writer until high school at about the age of 16.

She wanted out of the decorating scheme.

The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.

But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant

He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.

You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.

If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.