Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the writing to illuminate the human condition, some aspect of our world and our role in it. A reader of genre fiction likes that, too, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of the story.

"Oh My God," I blurted, grabbing onto Phin as we faced the open bedroom door. "It's the axe murderer." "I doubt he would knock," she said, but she was whispering, too, and didn't move away from me.

He rose to his feet in one fluid move, the better to look down at me. “You don’t know me, princess. Some people have reasons for doing things, and don’t just go wherever they’re told or drift whichever way they’re pushed.

How about this?" I said, because now it was the principle of the thing. "I'm sorry, jackass.

Faith isn't absence of doubt. It's belief without proof, not without question.

Long-haired Chihuahuas have no notion they are bite-sized.

She was the only creature in the world who would really care if something happened to me, even if it was only because I was the bringer of kibble.