Stepping into Stories, One Word at a Time
"Drake once told me that every song ever played is still playing. That every song ever played joins the one great never-ending song. I'd like to think that first chaotic jam is still out there in the universe. An echoing moment in time before Flanagan's, before the Hobo Underground, before Sunburst and Armageddon. Just five... Continue Reading →
"This was a forest made for dreams, or nightmares. Made for a world where the balance of oxygen in the air was different, where things felt less constrained to growing low and close to their own roots. Trees towered around me like California redwoods, some with trunks larger than an office building. Their bark was... Continue Reading →
“When you are too close to the center of a mystery there is no way to pull back and see the shape of it entire.”-Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer The Southern Reach Trilogy has been on my list of books to read for quite some time. When the tenth anniversary editions came out, with these gorgeous... Continue Reading →
“I was on a bare, grassy hillside scattered with stones, and that was impossible. I could see for miles in every direction, and that, too, was impossible.I started to laugh. It wasn’t that funny. It was just that if I laughed, it wasn’t serious. I’ve heard that people who get shot laughing sometimes, they’ll tell... Continue Reading →
“If you faced downstream so that you couldn’t see all the doors, it was pretty. Soft mist, rolling water, silvery leaves. I tried to dredge up some of the excitement I’d felt before. I was standing somewhere completely alien, completely unknown. There was so much possibility, just waiting to be explored.In the concrete hallway, which... Continue Reading →
"But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart." 11/22/63 by Stephen King 11/22/63 has been on my shelf for quite some time. I knew I... Continue Reading →
Of Worlds Forgotten 