Raven jerks and stiffens. For a second, I think she is only surprised: Her mouth goes round, her eyes
wide.
Then she begins teetering backward, and I know that she is dead. Falling, falling, falling . . .

“It's too late. I've seen things...I've lost things you can't understand.”

“You must hurt, or be hurt.”

“Everything looks stark and vivid and frozen, as though drawn precisely and outl…”

“Once Mo had closed the gates, he returned to his little stone hut, and his half…”