In Ascension

She was still a child. We all were. This never changes, it never leaves us, this sense of beginning, of always beginning, of always being young.

might drown. Still they didn’t

A family is a group of strangers with a destructive desire for common nostalgia.

So many times I had identified errors – in my work and in my relationships – stemming from the original mistake of too many assumptions, of predicting rather than perceiving the world and seeing something that wasn’t really there.

Any sufficiently advanced technology will appear indistinguishable from magic.

inadvertently frustrating and so provoking him