Eventually you’ve got to understand that an answer isn’t the same thing as a solution, and a story is sometimes only an excuse. — Nic Pizzolatto - Caitlín R. Kiernan

She takes off her sunglasses, and he wishes that she hadn’t.

Yesterday was an utter waste. An artist, of whatever stripe, has only so many days, to write or paint or dance or whatever, and each one wasted is that much that will never be accomplished.

Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand different ways. A book, a poem, a song, a bedtime story, a grandmother's suicide, the choreography of a dance, a few frames of film, a diagnosis of schizophrenia, a deadly tumble from a horse, a faded photograph, or a story you tell your daughter.