The Standard of Care The germ of my idea spawned last Christmas when our Aunt Muriel, who lived in Florida and looked like a rotisserie chicken, gave my brother a set of marbles.
True Scale Then: a star—someone else’s sun—crashes through the gate of our Oort Cloud and rolls towards us, and it’s just like it was at the planetarium, on that elementary school field trip where I was introduced to the claustrophobia of watching a tiny yellow dot—
Custer's Last Stand Even the bartenders, two burly guys with dark curly hair and mustaches—they look like brothers—seem bored stiff.