In terms of style, too, I think I've been working with a somewhat limited -- although intentionally limited -- set of tools. So I'm attempting to be a bit looser as I start stories off. To digress. To make interesting mistakes.

We are sitting on our honeymoon bed in the honeymoon suite. We are in a state of honeymoon, in our honey month. These words are so sweet: honey, moon. This bed is so big, we could live on it. We have been happily marooned -- honey marooned -- on this bed for days.

I'd be flattered if someone said that my work is "too weird" for them. I value the uncompliment.

Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes.

When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction.

When you're Dead ... you stay up all night long.

What I like about narrative in general is when there is some incongruity between the form and content. Let's say, mixing up the gothic with a coming-of-age narrative. Telling a love story that's also a monster story. Mixing up superhero tropes with your monster tropes. I like category confusion.