I took a turn through 19th century children’s literature, where the unnerving weirdness of Pinocchio gave me a taste for speculative fiction that sent me spiralling gloriously into Stephen King.
When I Paint My Masterpiece
That was when I made my big mistake.
“The only reason he had anything to do with you was to get to me.”
She flinched.
Storyrider, Dragonreader
In children’s books, kids just get horses somehow. They don’t buy them. They win them in raffles or end up shipwrecked with them on desert islands. Horses come into children’s lives through magic. The stories give kids power, control over another creature, but even in stories parents have the ultimate power.
Transparencies
Oh… here we go again. Packing up, but hopefully the last time I recon if in truth I get there. I can’t remember the number of times I’ve moved in my life – too many.
Words
And for all you writers unknown to me at present … I hope to meet you soon.
A Man with a Lot of Explaining to Do
She understood that her great grand uncle Emmett liked acquiring things. She understood too that he had a fondness for telling stories. In another few years, it became clear that what Emmett Dorn liked most was observing people, messing with them, and then killing them.