It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.

Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.

She waited for you in a thousand different ways.

It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement.

I might screw up, I might embarrass you, I might yell at you, but I will never, ever stop loving you. You're my first born. The first time I held you... I fell in love so hard it cracked my bones.

Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there are elements of reader expectation that play into various genres, and those are important, but it also becomes about packaging, placement, audience....In the end, I'm not a fan of labels. I think the best fiction blurs the boundaries between genres, stretches and breaks them.

Do you love him?" How would I know?" You'd know.