"I intend to keep writing stories that piss people off, that tell the particular kind of truth I think is valid, that will make me feel more and more… - Harlan Ellison

For a while I was here, and for a while I mattered.

"Each of us moves through life shadowed by childhood memories. We never forget. We are bent and shaped and changed by those ancient fears and hatreds. They are the mortal dreads that in a million small ways block us off or drive us towards out destiny." (Shatterday, p198)

There are four billion people in the world. A world that has grown so complex and uncaring with systems and brutalization of individuals because of the inertia produced by those systems’ perpetuation of self, that merely to live is to be assaulted daily by circumstances.