#fractal mode

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[dreamingbigpublications]

A shelf in a book store in Edmonds, WA featuring our most prolific writer, Piers Anthony!

[inlifeasindeath]

[this-is-laris-blog]

One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not, we who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs or seem to seek them, who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors, we're not that way from perversity. And we cannot just relax and let it go. We've learned to cope in ways you never had to.

Piers Anthony, Fractal Mode - author's notes

[wordswilling]

One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.

Piers Anthony, from the author's note in Fractal Mode

I think everyone had some hardship in their childhood. It's important to remember that it shapes us.

[theoriginalcreativeoutlet]

Author note from Fractal Mode (Mode Series #2)

"One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not, we who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs or seem to seek them, who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors, we're not that way from perversity. And we cannot just relax and let it go. We've learned to cope in ways you never had to."

-Piers Anthony

[crkdvsn]

One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not, we who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs or seem to seek them, who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors, we're not that way from perversity. And we cannot just relax and let it go. We've learned to cope in ways you never had to.

Piers Anthony

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The sea wind sought her out and tugged at her hair and the skirt of her tunic. Both material and hair flowed to her left, and the air stroked every part of her body with an intimacy she would not have permitted in anything else. She was exhilirated. She shaded her eyes with her left hand and waved to the sea with her right. She wished she could be here forever.

Piers Anthony, Fractal Mode, Character 'Nona'