A certain middle-eastern carpenter named Joshua approached a group of fishermen as they toiled on the banks of the Mediterranean Sea....

Even before she could melt their brains, people thought the girl was odd. She didn’t belong to any of them, and no one belonged to her...

I think of Joshua every time I watch someone die. I think he may have been the only real friend I ever had. I killed him, of course.

The matter that has led me, at the crack of noon, my aluminum-ensconced caffeine delivery system still percolating in its own condensate,...

She is a wizened old woman, so shrouded in winter and mystery that her very name became synonymous with "veil." She is a Queen, at the...