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Like all worthwhile art, the piece invites us on a journey that has no path nor map, nor even an endpoint. Only a process, footsteps through the mind of an artist now forever lost to us.

— Jay Lake Last Plane to Heaven (2014)

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Life is too short and hard and strange not to blame God for what He done made of the world.

Art unexamined is, after all, art unexperienced.

Last Plane to Heaven (2014)

With age comes wisdom. Or at least experience.

The Decaying Mansions of Memory (2011)

Magic, the blessed curse that gnaws at the soul and leaves a void in the mind into which too much that is alien and deadly can settle.

The Decaying Mansions of Memory (2011)

Springfield McKenna didn’t place much faith in rumors. She’d traded in them far too long to lend credence to someone else’s social munitions.

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