"...the wounds are so fresh, the blood is scarcely dry..." - Dale Pendell

"Soldiers like to tell stories ... and I'm a good listener."

"It becomes its own strange kind of normal..."

A Moment of Disregard

"The Pharmako books go way back to a vision I had of something I was going to call 'The Poet's Guide to Drugs'...."

Lisa Desrochers and Karen Joy Fowler

"...and I just thought, 'Really? Do you have to bum me out? 'Cos this is pretty much no backsies."

"..now we're sophisticated enough to recognize the language of movies...."

"I really liked that idea of one of the characters eavesdropping and the things that she would be aware of in that housing community."

"There's a particular story that's going on here."