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Sneak peek: Excerpt #1 from upcoming novel

Sam and Martha threaded their way between the campfires, moving through corridors of half-lit night, the sand and grit pleasant against the soles of their bare feet. They split up and sat in on different fires for twenty, thirty minutes at a time, accepting drinks that were offered, or marshmallows on sticks to roast, and then they rose by some nocturnal synchronicity, or a half-glimpsed movement from the corner of the eye, and came together again in the dusky crossroads between the pools of light.

The Sentient

"Tell me, what did the humans find on the other worlds? What did you find? I can only imagine that, like them, you have cast your own eyes out into the cosmos?"

All That We Know

We knew of our inhumanity and tried to hide from it, cover it up, bury it beneath the goodness in our nature. It’s something inside of us, a capacity, as much as love and hope and friendship.