There was a birthday present waiting to be read, a boxed set of the Narnia books, which I took upstairs. I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.

“I felt like someone who'd been informed that she wasn't actually a hooker; that…”

“What makes you think I'm giving you a ride?” “Because I'm a damsel in distress,…”

“You get work however you get work, but people keep working in a freelance world…”

“As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in t…”