And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body--her life.

[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones - THAT kind of love.

A place where your life exists before you live it, and where it goes afterwards.

I survived, but it's not a happy ending.

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

I did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at a piece of nonfiction, a personal memoir of youth, but over the next several weeks, without intending it, the work began evolving into what has become 'Tomcat in Love.