There was nowhere they could have gone and they went there anyway.

If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.

Spider venom comes in many forms. It can often take a long while to discover the full effects of the bite. Naturalists have pondered this for years: there are spiders whose bite can cause the place bitten to rot and to die, sometimes more than a year after it was bitten. As to why spiders do this, the answer is simple. It's because spiders think this is funny, and they don't want you ever to forget them.

But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.

Nice' in a bodyguard is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters.

There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers and enemies, strangers and friends. But all are fragile things made of just twenty-six letters arranged and re-arranged to form tales and imaginings which will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul.

Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy.