Status Updates From The Other Shore: Stories

"The world has been different before and it will be different again. Maybe even better."

"Conclusion: An Incomplete Catalogue of Miraculous Births, or, Secrets of the Uterus Abscondita"

"I wrote it when I was pregnant and scared and thinking about all the other people struggling to bring new life into a dangerous world."

"“You’re the artist,” the woman went on, as though Remy might be the only one. She wondered how long this had been her designation. Oh, it’s just the Artist, people said, when they heard her fumbling through the night-time forest, echolocating and soaked to the skin, in search of the salmon’s secrets."

Maybe when she imagined him, it was all a sympa­thetic invention, like voices in the undergrowth, and the chatter of salal, and the slow conversations that trees have across the centuries."

"On the other side of the Pacific, Eidolon felt the universe open wide, pour into his tiny human brain. Or maybe he didn’t. Maybe that was all her imagination, and Eidolon was knocked uncon­scious by sensations that were impossible to integrate or understand.