First Rule, Stick Them With The Pointy

I Had These Cheap Alien Toys And I Made Up Stories For Them. They Were Space Pirates. They Didn’t Have Names So I Made Up Names. These Were The First Stories I Wrote. Even As A Little Kid I Was Thinking About Torture.

A Lord May Love The Men That He Commands, But He Cannot Be A Friend To Them. One Day He May Need To Sit In Judgement On Them, Or Send Them Forth To Die.

Some Old Wounds Never Truly Heal, And Bleed Again At The Slightest Word.

The Distinction Between Literary And Genre Fiction Is Stupid And Pernicious. It Dates Back To A Feud Between Robert Louis Stevenson And Henry James. James Won, And It Split Literature Into Two Streams. But It's A Totally False Dichotomy.

I Grew Up With Four T.v. Channels. If You Missed A Show, You Missed It. You Gotta Wait A Week For The Next One. I'd Mail-order Books: Take A Quarter, Get An Envelope, Send Off For It And Wait Until It Arrived. I Grew Up Waiting For Things.