I kept quiet, but the ...

I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back. And this one fact seemed to point to other facts and others still: Love frays and humans fail, time passes, eras end.
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 Karen Thompson Walker

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Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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 Karen Thompson Walker
Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
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 Karen Thompson Walker
With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here's a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of magic. A human grows a second human in a space inside her belly; she grows a second heart and a second brain, second eyes and second limbs, a complete set of second body parts as if for use as spares, and then, after almost a year, she expels that second screaming being out of her belly and into the world, alive. Bizarre, isn't it?
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 Karen Thompson Walker
Even beauty, in abundance, turns creepy.
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I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.
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 Karen Thompson Walker