Why me?' I ask God. God says nothing. I laugh and the stars watch. It's good to be alive.

How about a kiss, Saumensch?

Personally, I like a chocolate-covered sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, however, try to enjoy every color I see - the whole spectrum. A billion or so flavors, none of them quite the same, and a sky to slowly suck on. It takes the edge off the stress. It helps me relax.

She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.

I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.

Very quickly, very suddenly, words fell through my mind. They landed on the floor of my thoughts, and in there, down there, I started to pick the words up. They were excerpts of truth gathered from inside me.

Personally, I like a chocolate-colored sky, dark, dark chocolate.