One Halloween night, six friends decide to take a moonlit walk through the woods.

Only five come back.

You are going into a state of trance and time just kind of goes and there's this sort of animal channel between the head and the hand and it's wonderful.

I remember picking up book after book and just not being able to get into any of these books just thinking, What's intriguing about this book that I'm reading and there's nothing in it for me. And really feeling like I want something to represent me and my background and there isn't anything, there wasn't anything.

Hard- boiled fiction is also really afflicted with this twisted, and very American, casual bigotry. And it makes me so mad because there are so many great lines and so much extensive writing that Chandler did, and these movies just have so much beautiful writing in them but just have these big problems.

Perhaps, as the sun goes down, a paper lantern catches fire and the sky fills with flames, calling the attention of the adults away. 

This is the ceremony at the heart of a potential story; from these few elements, a world can be dreamed into being.