Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in single-minded grace. Like the school of the fish, so driven to righteousness they could flout the law, declare the safety of their souls, then go home and destroy the evidence.
I didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.
I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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