Will Walker
Will Walker
William Walker may refer to:...
trying president fiction
I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the president, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.
earthquakes ideas haunting
Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting.
ordinary pleasure ordinary-life
There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
editors reader
An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.
scary-stories newspapers ifs
If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.
father lying fall
I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited after forty years. Once in awhile, a letter does fall behind a post office desk and lie there for years before it's finally discovered and delivered to the rightful address. The seemingly brain-dead sometimes wake up and start talking. I'm always on the lookout for proof that what is done can sometimes be undone.
decay sometimes certain
Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.
father storm eras
I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back. And this one fact seemed to point to other facts and others still: Love frays and humans fail, time passes, eras end.
closets dangerous happened
Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted.
possibility
To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.
fighting men victory
In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.
beer despair drink
I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?
fiction knows
Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.
people hatred friendly
Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.