I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

( KJ Parker, Diana Wynne Jones, Rapunzel variant, lesbian romance )

Quote:
Often I cared nothing for the woman I made love to. I cared for the thing she seemed to be hiding from me.
H.G. Wells, Secret Places of the Heart

My very first Smallville story, The Presence of Fire, is up at the Audio archive, courtesy of cathexys.

( Jim Butcher and Ilona Andrews, heir to Laurell Hamilton )

Quotes for my commonplace book:

Und willst du nicht mein Bruder sein, So schlag' ich Dir den Schädel ein. (If you don't want to be my brother, then I'll smash your skull in.)

“We fed the heart on fantasy; the heart grew brutal on the fare.” Wm. Butler Yeats

"Torture, from Latin torquere, to twist. What visual instruction in etymology! ... Whoever was tortured, stays tortured. Torture is ineradicably burned into him, even when no clinically objective traces can be detected." Jean Améry, At the Mind's Limit: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities

The funniest thing about this parody is the Google ads it triggers. But I like the parody pretty well too.

I went to the Sisters of Mercy concert and got home in time to feed the baby -- a short set. Decent concert, neither the worst nor the best I've been to, with high points at Alice and Vision Thing. It's always fun to be in a packed crowd of people who know all the words. Best image of the night: the woman in front of me, in a pinstriped suit, who carefully pinned up her hair, revealing the elaborate tattoo curling around her neck and shoulders.

I just read this anecdote: Near the end of his life, Theodore Dreiser occasionally grew confused. One night he woke and searched for his wife Helen, but he didn't recognize her, and they had the following exchange:

Helen Dreiser: I am Helen.
Theodore Dreiser: Everyone thinks she's Helen.

So true, isn't it?