This week, I opened a small collection of poems I inherited decades ago and felt something shift. They were written by my great-uncle Harlow, who served in World War II and passed away in the early 1980s. I didn’t know him well, but I remember him kindly. He lived far away—to me as a child at least, in San Francisco. It always felt like more of an idea than a place—and he kept mostly to himself. He never married. He read constantly, especially history and science, and sometim

Readers sometimes ask why, as an author of historical science fiction, I would create a tarot deck. On the surface, the two might seem like strange companions.

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What happens when a story leaps off the page and into the cards?