Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.
We lie best when we lie to ourselves.
So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.
As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all along.
We're news junkies in my house.
The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker