Picking one of your favorite creation or character is like picking the best one of your children! I'm not sure it really works. My very favorite characters tend to be ones I can go back to and look at, and have no idea how they popped out of my head.

He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly heroes of the penny dreadfuls and shilling novels never had these problems getting kissed.

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?

It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

And then it went, and time passed properly once more, every second following every other second just like they're meant to.

I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It was me and a handful of tyrannosaurs. We'd be writing blog entries like, 'The tyrannosaurus is getting grumpy.'

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.