"Do you want to go? His country is truly beautiful. Though it's awfully cold and the men are said to be unusually brutish."

It continued like this for almost two months. Jin-Hua opened the pouch to feed the snake, and it hissed a vile curse involving her, her loved ones, and immense torture and discomfort.

"The big presses are too conservative; the small presses are increasingly taking up the slack and publishing the more innovative or daring material, not to mention the new writers."

A genre that must make room for Kafka and Beckett and Dostoevsky is perhaps no longer a genre but merely a definition of writing successfully.

we know the sound / and see their footsteps' deep blue shadows and their occasional bodies