

"I can't do a thing with this until LeRoy brings me a new belt, or a ten foot lever and an immovable fulcrum to get this nut off." I planted my boots in the cold muck under the generator and slid out to face her. "Oh, hell, I wanted to talk to the both of you." "Oh, he was," I said, giving up on the pulley nut and using my wrench as a hammer, "but he was so hung over he couldn't swear right, so I sent him away before he spoiled my fun." "I thought Theo was going to help you before he went back to the Underbridge," she said to my feet. I was swearing at the generator in the shed the next day when Sherrea came to find me. "I didn't ask," I told her, and took the beer she held out to me. "She'll be over in the square, too, setting up for the whoop tonight."įrances stuck her head out of the kitchen as the stranger turned away. "I'm looking for Sherrea - I need to talk to her about zebras." He grinned back at me and shook his head. "Hey! Looking to trade? They're all up in the square." I set my empty beer down on the porch and lifted a hand back. She’s written novels, screenplays, a children’s book, and short stories. Her novels include the Hugo- and Nebula-nominated Bone Dance and the urban fantasy War for the Oaks."Hey'dho!" a stranger said, lifting his hand up to me. Is negative space the space you don’t like, or the space that is not there? And if it’s not there how can you tell?Įmma Bull is an American science fiction and fantasy author.The problem with my results is that I couldn’t tell the difference then between happy and fake-happy.

I based this theory on observation of select adults. When I was a kid, I thought I’d just get happier and happier as I got older, and have more things to be happy about.I believe that truth is beauty, but not, I’m afraid, the reverse. I believe that the work we do and leave behind us is our afterlife and I believe that history lies, but sometimes so well that I can’t bring myself to resent it.

I believe in the beauties of philosophy and poetry.
