I want my voice to be consistent no matter if it's an original or a translation.

I'm just being honest about the fact that a second language won't resonate with you like the first does.

I think that the more alien and strange a world or situation is, the more concise you have to be if you want the reader to follow you. It depends on what effect you're looking for.

I don't consider genre while writing.

Time is built entirely on consensus: humans decide that they have linear time, so they do.

Your first thought is often the best one. You know, the one that felt too weird or silly or stupid. Trust your imagination - it knows what it's doing.

My early stories revolved around reality and faith. I wrote a series of stories about the darker aspects of Christian myth: a woman who hides in the attic and watches the Apocalypse, a cult whose members preserve themselves in huge formalin tubs waiting for the Second Coming, and so on.