I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

some choices you make with your heart some with your head but when in doubt choose head over heart.... it will keep you alive. -merry gentry

But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.

What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?

Nill illigitamus carborundum

Silk didn't care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I'd earned my right to be paranoid.

She doesn't understand what she's asking, Jean-Claude said. No, but she asks, and if we do not do it, we will always wonder. I would rather thy and fail than regret having never tried at all.