I know the ugly faces the moon makes when it thinks no one is watching. - Caitlín R. Kiernan

All I have to do is make you see this. This one particular thing here. That's all. And sometimes it's impossible. Sometimes, I know the best odds I can hope for are a thousand to one. You'll see what you see, what your life has conditioned you to see upon encountering that combination of words, not what I want or need you to see. Fiction writing is like making films for the blind.

…but that was a long time ago, a long story everyone’s tired of repeating, or a short story simply not worth repeating again.

Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.