We Are Not Born To

Evil Was Coming. I Wondered Whose Face It Would Be Wearing.

In The Real World As In Dreams Nothing Is Quite What It Seems. -the Book Of Counted Sorrows

Strangely Enough, For Many Many Years I Didn't Talk About My Childhood And Then When I Did I Got A Ton Of Mail - Literally Within A Year I Got A Couple Of Thousand Letters From People Who'd Had A Worse Childhood, A Similar Childhood, A Less-bad Childhood, And The Question That Was Most Often Posed To Me In Those Letters Was: How Did You Get Past The Trauma Of Being Raised By A Violent Alcoholic?

Life Is A Train Ride, And At The Many Stations Along The Route, People Important To Us Debark, Never To Get Aboard Again, Until By The End Of The Journey, We Sit In A Passenger Car Where Most Of The Seats Are Empty.

I Don't Find Slashing And Blood Flying Everywhere To Be Scary. I Just Find It Repulsive.