be careful what you say. The gods may not be the only ones listening.

“No one sang up there. No one ever laughed too loud. Even the gods were silent.”

“You lie,” he said. “All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some…”

“I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I’m so tired of being stro…”

“She remembered a tale she had heard from Old Nan, about how sometimes during a …”