“ You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader. ”
You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.
~ Nancy Kress
An alien had given her his phone number and asked her to wait. It was almost like dating again.
Where did the bonds of maternity end? All children grew up, changed, became somebody else. Parents who trembled that they might lose a gap-toothed toddler to some terrible accident ended up losing him anyway, always, to time. The toddlers died, after all, and what was left was a bond with another adult, who had once been the beloved child.
A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.
