And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.

I'm not asexual. I'm arelationshipal.

I could stand up and go to her and kiss her. I could. But there is still too much to be ruined.

She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different.

And it was just the three of us - three bodies and two people - the three who knew what had happened and too many layers between all of us too much keeping us from one another.

I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.

Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.