there are aspects of it [teaching] that are not at all enjoyable. But that "lively exchange of ideas" thing? That satisfaction you feel when a studen… - Nalo Hopkinson

She just wanted to be somewhere safe, somewhere familiar, where people looked and spoke like her and she could stand to eat the food.

Science fiction and fantasy are about looking at the world through a different lens. So whatever I write, including sex scenes, I may first think, how can I cause myself, and the reader, to see this differently? What can I do to challenge, delight, surprise, unsettle?

Mami," Ti-Jeanne said, "I should go and get Baby. He ain't take to Tony." "Hmph. Child got some sense, then. More than some I could name. But leave he there. He have to learn that he can't always have what he want.