Love is a powerful painkiller.
The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone.
The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them.
Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.
It looked like just the sort of family Americans dream of having: dumb and loving.
Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.