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Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading
The reading went great! I got to read with my sister, and... generally if the Broads are in the house, GO SEE THEM. I read from Immortal Gifts, and people chuckled in all the right places, so there you are.
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Grandfather Paradox
JUNE 23, 1994
Ann stuffed her blood-spattered clothes into the next door apartment complex’s dumpster. He wasn’t dead, but it was harder to get a knife through someone’s chest than she’d expected. Maybe he’d bleed to death before someone found him. She didn’t care either way. She was a juvenile, so it wasn’t like she was going to fry.
She walked. The YMCA was open. She locked herself in the men’s room, curled up on the floor, and fell asleep.
Broad Universe Rapid-Fire Reading
Are you going to WorldCon in Glasgow? You can SEE ME there! August 11, 2024 at 4pm Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading - Castle 2 Meet the Broads of Broad Universe! The authors of Broad Universe will drop you into their fictional universes with short readings from...
The Interview with the Vampire TV Series
OH MY $DEITY I AM OBSESSED. So, I'm a book fan--not a "True Fan," as I read the first three and stopped--but I read and loved the first three books very much. (I recently read Tale of the Body Thief as well and enjoyed it!) But it's as someone who read these books at...
La Divinia Commedia
INFERNO
Last time this happened, I was Orpheus.
Ethan was lost, pale, gone in a haze of Zoloft and Lithium and anorexia, and he assured me he was in hell, and I missed him so much that the rocks and trees wept. And when neither of us could bear it any more, I descended into the underworld and went to the King. I sang such a song of grief that I even moved the King of the Underworld to tears, and he said I could bring my Eurydice back to the light of day if only I didn’t turn back and look upon him. As I walked through the fluorescent halls and the smell of bleach and urine I knew this was hell, and I couldn’t bear the thought of my beloved locked away from the sun like this forever. So I led the way singing, and the janitors and nurses wept and cleared a path for us as we walked down the hall.
Immortal Gifts invites readers to re-evaluate the meanings of things such as life, death, freedom, hate and love from the first page. Katherine Villyard manages to capture some of the most poignant questions we ask ourselves as we go through our individual lives. Is it worth being able to live forever if, in the end, we’ll lose the ones we love to mortality? Is Death really the ultimate enemy to life, or is death just life’s misunderstood old friend? To stop hate, do we need to restrict our freedoms? This book makes readers ask and answer tough questions not only about the characters and plotline, but about their own beliefs, understandings, and dreams.