“So what can we generalize about Victorian vampires? They are already dead, yet not exactly dead, and clammy-handed. They can be magnetically repelled by crucifixes and they don’t show up in mirrors. No one is safe; vampires prey upon strangers,… — Michael Sims Copy Share Image
Philosophers, comedians, and tipsy birthday celebrants all have proposed theories about why time seems to move increasingly swiftly as we grow older. But the most disconcerting rationale is not a theory. It is the undeniable realization that every day we live constitutes a smaller percentage of the accrued experience with which we awaken each morning, and therefore seems proportionately a… — Michael Sims Copy Share
“If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible… — Michael Sims Copy Share Image
I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library and the town had… — Michael Sims Copy Share Image
“So what can we generalize about Victorian vampires? They are already dead, yet not exactly dead, and clammy-handed. They can be magnetically repelled by… — Michael Sims Copy Share Image
“It was a dramatically patterned robin-sized songbird with a black hood, white waistcoat, and rich russet sides—a bird whose cheerful call of drink-your-teeeaaaaa was… — Michael Sims Copy Share Image
