Tell me the story of a hero and I will write a song to break your heart.
Frost
from “Women Who Sleep With Dogs”
“I am rings. Rings of happy and sad seasons. Thick rings, and thin. An old tree, waiting to be cut down, or struck by lightning. I am rings of history and fear.”
The Jink
from “Memoirs of the Grey Ranger”
I came from the Wastefield-Barrio on Orous and I am Jemini Delagrassi, a girl who got misprinted on one side.
“Into the Sawtooths” an excerpt from “A Bridge in the Wilderness”
from “The Bridge in the Wilderness”
a story told by Indy, in “Women Who Sleep With Dogs.”
Cat’s Garden
from “Women Who Sleep With Dogs”
Loneliness seeped into each windswept, prairie day until Cat could almost finger the sadness that clogged her throat, and feel its shape, a cold desperation that was hard like stone