Stray Thoughts on a Random Day

Talking to the four-year-old about how he needs to settle down and go to sleep, he suddenly got really somber and quiet. A moment later, with absolute seriousness: “I just remembered, I’ve never fallen asleep.”


One of my favorite lines from Michael Copperman during tonight’s discussion of Kazuo Ishiguro’s brilliant novel, “Never Let Me Go,” at Wordcrafters In Eugene — “You’d be surprised how often the heavy-handed, clunky move is the one you need.”


For years I’ve had a drably colored quilt made by my step-mother on my bed, because it was a quilt I happened to own. Finally I decided to buy a new quilt — it is brightly colored, and cheerful, and not made by my step-mother. And these are all good things.


Now that I’ve finished the space opera novel, I can get back to writing random short stories. And I have missed writing short stories. Short stories are fun.

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