The main reason I want someone to read a story of mine is so they can enjoy it and feel like they got something interesting out of it.

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.

They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits.

Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.

But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.

I like fast plots with things that explode.

Environmental science is telling us a lot about our future and what it could look like, whether we're talking about global warming (the current poster child for the environment) or a loss of genetic diversity in our food supplies, or the effects of low-dose chemicals on human development.