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The vampire's eyes were open, and he was staring at her intently. It was as though he were trying to speak to her with simply the power of a glare. Alexia did not speak glare-ish.

Soulless

Alexia's books called this end of the vampire life cycle . Alexia, who thought the action astoundingly similar to a soufflé going flat, decided at that moment to call it the Grand Collapse.

Soulless

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

But then, anyone was capable of any manner of atrocities if they wanted something bad enough. People could justify anything to themselves if they wanted it bad enough. No one was immune to that.

Sacrificial Magic

Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken.

Simply Magic

It was the kind of place where hard drinkers came to wrestle their demons while fallen angels drank alone in dark smoky corners.

Something More Than Night

Juniper laughed for real, but one of those fake smiles he considered a plague of the Caucasian race followed. If you’re sad, be sad, he wanted to say.

Solomon's Oak

In the dark, I seem to stretch. Without a body to witness, I grow and grow with my pleasure. I feel like a constellation, a concept hung on a scattering of stars.

The Summer Prince

A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

Special Topics in Calamity Physics

I actually felt awed by the remote possibilities of the person liked ever liking you back a corresponding amount.

Special Topics in Calamity Physics

After a few awkward moments, Lizzy joined them and they skipped along the avenue, the three of them, laughing and whooping and altogether making an undignified spectacle of themselves.

Simply Perfect

Dad's romances could last anywhere between a platypus egg incubation (19-21 days) and a squirrel pregnancy (24-45 days).

Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Without risk, we are automatons going through our days with no purpose or meaning. We are safer, perhaps, but we are also, ironically, closer to death.

The Sleeping Beauty Proposal

It's a fact that every minute you hold a child, it triples in mass.

Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood

Fighting in the name of freedom has too high a price," Merlin sighed as he leaned into his mother's arms.

Sons of Avalon: Merlin's Prophecy

Her fatigue was gone; she felt vital and strong, like a tree coming back to life in the springtime, vibrant with sap, ready to put out buds and then blossoms.

Springwater

We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times was till I left, but I guess that's the way of it

Serena

Maddock stabbed his fried egg with his fork, and bright yellow yolk bled all over his plate like a sunshine hemorrhage.

The Stars Never Rise

I opened my mouth to tell her that everything would be okay, but the words melted like sugar on my tongue-sweet yet insubstantial.

The Stars Never Rise

A kind of annihilation, was what Serena called their coupling, and though Pemberton would never have thought to describe it that way, he knew her words had named the thing exactly.

Serena

Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us...

Secret of the Sands