To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.

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.

Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and fear.

You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly. 'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline.

Anywhere that I can't check my email is a good place to write!

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

I really like being able to laugh at my own jokes.