And answering the questions posed in my last post!
BUT FIRST! A reminder! If you haven’t read TRIBOCHARGE yet, then what are you waiting for?
Tribocharge
Tribocharge: A type of contact electrification in which an object becomes electrically charged after coming into contact with another object.Lightning bolts wounded beautifully, but they healed ugly.
Peter Borley knew this. He saw it a little more every day in his grandpa, Alexander, whose light dimmed just a bit more every morning as his tungsten veins reignited and his skin — pink and shiny, rippled from the current — showed through.
When Indira P. of Brazil (our Supporter of the Moment January 2010) started
metempsyche and so many amazing readers joined so quicky to support Green, The Metempsyche novels, and my writing, I decided that I really needed to give something back.
The first offering I have is Peter Borley.
Peter is one of my very favorite characters to inhabit the Metempsyche universe, and he was my natural choice to star in the first Metempsyche companion short story. Because a release of Green itself is still TBA, I wanted to be able to give something (always spoiler-free!) back to the community members, readers, and well-wishers to whom I feel so indebted. I’m hoping to release a short story starring one of the secondary or tertiary characters from the Metempsyche world every 6-8 weeks for as long as I’m able, and Peter Borley the neighborhood poltergeist is just the first!
With that, my interrogation from you begins!
From Mary:
What I’d like to know about you is this: How do you walk around in the shoes you do? I’m speaking literally – I would fall down dead and die if I tried to wear your shoes in the rain (I loved your shoes in Kent) – and figuratively; how do you maintain a good head on your shoulders whilst being so talented and genuinely kind?
Aw, well, thank you miss Mary!
As for the literal “walking in my shoes” — I guess the best explanation that I have is that I took dance for sixteen years (and thus have very little feeling in my toes) and that in my last two years of high school, I wore heels every day. I was Rachel Berry from Glee, dressing like both a toddler and a grandmother at the same time. Although… I’ve never owned a pantsuit, thankfully.
My favorite pairs of shoes that I own:
These are my #1 favorite pair, except mine are in lime green!
As for the second half of your very sweet question, the answer is simple: I never lie, at least not intentionally. My freshman and sophomore years of college, I dated a truly horrendous, emotionally abusive, ridiculous, spoiled, awful boy to whom I told three very big lies in an attempt to scare him into being a better person. After the upkeep of those lies cost me several very good friends and didn’t do anything to make him stop hurting the people around him, I wised up, broke up with him, and proceeded never to lie again. I might sometimes withhold information from people if I think my opinion would hurt them, but a lie of omission is very different than telling a lie, in my opinion.
From Sam:
This is anything but deep… what’s your favorite kind of ice cream?
My favorite kind of ice cream in the entire world is tragically extinct. There’s a small ice cream shop in my town that’s owned and run by this very sweet, old Vietnamese woman, and they used to carry this very delicious ice cream called Fudgy Pudding, which was, literally, frozen chocolate pudding with brownie pieces and chocolate fudge chips. Unfortunately, I was apparently the only person in town who liked it, so they don’t carry it anymore, and I am always sad about it.
Of ice creams that still exist, I’m sort of an old person and I either like amaretto-cherry or spumoni. As my friend Justin once asked me, “You really like sweets that taste like they’re supposed to be dusty, don’t you?”
Yes. Yes, I do.
Thank you to Liz, Jacee, and Ashley for your comments as well!
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