I was what you might call a late bloomer, real late. I wore braces on my teeth until I was nearly 17. Couple that with being skinny, wearing glasses, straight hair, bouts of acne and I think you get the...

All day I laid in bed engaged with shapes that graced my ceiling. I saw things in these shapes that I had never seen before and I was slightly frightened by this. There was something different about my room and...