Lost Man's Lane

Librarians change lives. They may even save some.

More and more people will show their faces to the world,” he said. “They’ll volunteer to do it; they’ll want to do it, everyone made a movie star of their own life.

But this is the problem with love. It always hides the capacity for the deepest harm.

The hardest stories to tell are the ones that must be told.

I took off my harness and walked out, leaving him alone in the cavernous replica of the place he wanted to be, the one he called home.

People do crazy things for love. Like killing.

You ready to answer?”

Answer was an acronym in Jake’s language. It stood for “Awareness of anxiety, Normalize your breathing, Scan for tension, Wave of relaxation, Erase the past, Reset posture.”

Strength is overrated; balance is survival.”

Mortality.

Neither of us wanted to look that one in the eye. Who does?

The haunting power of any ghost relies not on entrances into our world but on almighty absences from it.