Into the deep from the dizzier heights is a dizzying transition. The world flies by, the logic and sheer rationality of the heights is left behind, and you find yourself deep down in your own id. You might think that this isn't a very safe transition, and you'd be right. You might think that this shouldn't be done without therapeutic supervision, ( Read more... )

"We want to take him out on a fact-finding mission. He is the only chance we have to infiltrate one of our own among the ruling vamps and find out what they are up to with this new plan." She stared, aghast. "You have us torture him for more than a decade, and now you want to let him go? Are you insane? He isn’t one of our own and he never will be ( Read more... )

Beer was the only way Simon could talk to his voices, and that was probably best for all concerned, where all concerned is everyone who would get concerned about someone talking to voices that nobody else could hear. That category included Simon, his shrink, his family, his coworkers, his friends, and anyone who randomly encountered him on the ( Read more... )

You cannot change the properties of your mind, or so the conventional wisdom goes, you can only expand its abilities, enhance what's already there, and fine-tune your awareness to communicate better with the brain. I call bullshit. I suppose that's my nature, really, so perhaps there's some irony for you: it's the property of my mind to refuse to ( Read more... )

The cultural psychosis had began, they thought, after the major war was lost and the popular president was booted from office in a temporary fit of spite. His successors seemed to take the booting as a sign that they shouldn't be such nice guys, regular guys despite at all, after all. So they didn't. And they weren't. It didn't help that the first ( Read more... )

It was the twelfth day of Christmas, and signs of stress were beginning to show. "How much longer do you think she'll need this?" she asked between gritted teeth ( Read more... )

He had the music genome as ordered, but his lead soprano mother and his violinist father were frustrated by the path that it took. Even though they brought him the best vocal instructors, sent him to all the music camps he had time for, and frequently took field trips to music stores, he remained obstinately uninterested in the sound of music, ( Read more... )