“And stories like ours can be tailored for times of darkness: for moments of profound and unsettling disquiet; in the face of intractable forms of injustice and neglect; as resources for assurance and imagination when the light begins to fade each evening, as it will. We speak into this darkness not with the promise of a dawn to come - who wants to spend all night waiting for that anyway - but instead with the knowledge that the world will feel different when it does”