You say, "I have watched several people who believe they can read others, but they tend to taint their outlook with their own personal perspective ( Read more... )

"...so there they sat, the four of them, huddled in their car as they prayed that whatever got a hold of Jim and Billy wouldn’t find them. The night was dark, pressing in around them, and seemed to carry in the very air with it a deep, forboding silence. Suddenly there was a crunch, like the fall of a foot upon dried leaves. Crunch, crunch, ( Read more... )

Americans are said to be a sleep-deprived people, and teenagers are the worst of the lot. Most are lucky to get 6, 7 or 8 hours of sleep a night, even though studies have shown repeatedly that people in their teens and possibly even early 20's need 9 to 10 hours. Many live in a state of chronic sleep deficit that can affect mood, behavior, ( Read more... )

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

Left-handedness versus right-handedness, as for example what is meant by those terms with, say, a mirror image - in which the left hand 'becomes' the right hand... How would you define a left-hand glove compared to a right-hand glove so a person who had no knowledge of those terms could tell you which you meant? And not get the other? The mirror ( Read more... )

I know a charm that can cure pain and sickness, and lift the grief from the heart of the grieving ( Read more... )

You're walking on gallows ground, and there's a rope around your neck and a raven-bird on each shoulder waiting for your eyes, and the gallows tree has deep roots, for it stretches from heaven to hell, and our world is only the branch from which the rope is swinging.

I wonder if the machines scan the silent falling snow.