What if I never stop inventing?

Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.

Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.

Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what's reasonable also allows in other things.

My boots were so heavy that I was glad there was a column beneath us. How could such a lonely person have been living so close to me my whole life? If I had known, I would have gone up to keep him company.