Fear was the knowledge of pain, the awareness that you could be hurt, that you could die.
I worked at a Books-a-Million in Louisville for several years.
My fall began, as many stories do, with a girl.
I don't believe in fate," he said carefully, "but... I do believe everything happens for a reason. That there is some plan, some meaning to this darkness we live in.
There are only those you can live with, and those you can work to change.
It's not the physical scars that are the most painful.