It was important to me to put together a future history that would scan, and serve as the backdrop to the domestic story. Economics is really what drives the plot.

I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.

We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

I have never in all my life considered you other people.

Got nothing to do with trying. You like someone, or you don't. If you're 'trying', you don't.

The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport.