I cry for everything I abandoned and because I, too, have been left behind -- by Alex, by my mom, by time that has cut through our worlds and separated us.

“We're on the other side of the fence now, Lena,' she says, tiredly, as she pass…”

“I'm used to a feeling of doubleness, of thinking one thing and having to do ano…”

“This is a monster-story, and he has come back to me a terror-creation, patched …”

“Here's something else you might as well learn now: If you want something, if yo…”