Okay. Time for you to climb the mountain.

The mountain? Already?

That's right.

But why?

( Because I said so. )

I've never really noticed before how lovely this meadow is in this early-morning light. Why is that? To lie out in the dewy grass as night gives way to day… how have I never noticed that there is nothing else quite so splendid in all the world ( Read more... )

The body had been laying there by the roadside for quite some time ( Read more... )

The soothsayer looked up from the lines on my hands to stare at my face, squinting suspiciously ( Read more... )

Okay, listen up. Right here. Right here. Listen to me for one second, okay? Okay? Listen, they’re getting me ready. I’m being loaded right now. I’m in the gun. They put me in the gun. Do you understand? Hello? They’re aiming. They’re aiming right at you. I’m pointed right at you. Man, they have a perfect bead on you. All adjusted for wind and ( Read more... )

“You need to understand,” she said. “You’ve had all this time to change the course of your life and you’ve done nothing. So now I am taking direct possession to inform you that the path that you're taking is leading you directly to Hell ( Read more... )

And so it was that shortly after my passing I found myself face-to-face with the Creator ( Read more... )

They lost count of the close calls they had over the years. It wasn’t a real trip, they’d joke, unless someone almost died. Every kind of drug in every combination... Sometimes they didn’t even know what they were taking. Just a matter of time before one of them ran out of luck, really. So after the initial shock, she found that she wasn’t that ( Read more... )

My maternal grandmother, Charlotta Fry Curtis - from whom Liana gets her middle name of Charlotte - passed away late last night. She was a Southern girl who exemplified a calm, polite aplomb that found its way into her children and (I'd like to believe) grandchildren; being around Grammy was the opposite of Family Drama. The last couple of years ( Read more... )

Rory Root - owner of the Comic Relief comics shop in Berkeley that has been a bedrock of the industry for as long as I've been seriously reading comics, much less writing any of them - passed away today from what sounds to have been complications from hernia surgery over the weekend ( Read more... )