The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back.

Death doesn't just make all the world kin, it makes all religions one

Perhaps, thought Talon, there was a path in between. A way to shed their ignorance without losing their souls.

...if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened...but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead.

On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher attempted to pierce the sky. Instead they touched the stars.

Whether consciousness is implanted in us by something divine, or whether it is created by the efforts of our brains, the end result is the same. We are.

We want what you no longer want.