Sometimes the important thing isn't the thing we do, but instead the doing of the thing we do. In doing the thing, we become better at doing. So, the next time a thing needs being done, we're better able

Her eyes fell down like snowflakes onto summer ground, where snow can never last.

At the first trace of dawn a creature hooded and swaddled in sack cloth and rags wandered out of a long-abandoned copper-smelting plant and scurried down to squat on the Susquehanna River shore. With one

A photograph of Barbara "Sandi" Robison stares back at me as I listen to her sing. The music is half a century old. I discovered it only a few months ago, but something in her eyes has bothered

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Exploring a new moon, Captain Vasquez’s crew accidentally drilled into the side of a space vessel buried deep underground. Thousands of giant crystalline spiders spilled out the hole and began spinning

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Carlos loved mechanical squirrels so much that he built two dozen. He’d wind them up and giggle as they ran around the apartment, scaled his bookshelves, even danced, until the tension of their springs

Doctor James Finny felt the Dark Cipher working within him as he loaded rounds into a snub-nosed revolver. He felt no fear of it, unlike the others. Truth be known, he was actually quite thrilled at the

Introduction: Trevor Hall — A Harmonious Contradiction Trevor Hall just might be the perfect singer-songwriter for his generation. Just like his music — which combines folk, reggae, roots, and Sanskrit