Sherwood Smith
Sherwood Smith
Sherwood Smithis an American fantasy and science fiction writer for young adults as well as adults. Smith is a Nebula Award finalist and a longtime writing group organizer and participant...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
sorry laughing appearance
Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable.
spring growth normal
Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.
ocean ransom pay
We'll abduct Garian. Or Jason." "And—?" "And dump them into the ocean. Nobody would ever pay a ransom for them.
self gloves stones
One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.
hurt gossip stories
Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.
hurt ideas gossip
It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into gossip. As I walked beside the silent Tamara, I realized that despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.
falling-in-love men thinking
No, I don't think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don't accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and all that. I'd have to trust a man's words before I could love him. I think.
song war winning
Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?" They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us.
play differences water
If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people." "And a lot fewer poems and plays," I said, laughing as I splashed about in the scented water.
eye men feelings
I had seen ardency in men's eyes, but I had only felt it once. With Flauvic, false and therefore easy to dismiss. I suddenly wished that I could feel it now. No, I did feel it. I did have the same feeling, only I had masked it as restlessness, or as the exhortation to action, or as anger. I thought how wonderful it would be to see that spark now, in the right pair of eyes.
people firsts ifs
When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.
doubt ridiculous when-in-doubt
When in doubt, be ridiculous.
memories reality sight
Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water.
both business cluster office older praise tend thank tough women
In my generation, if a man washes the dishes, the older women still tend to cluster around and coo and thank him and praise him. But if a woman washes the dishes, it's business as usual, even if both man and woman have tough office jobs.