They have one-bedroom apartments going for $1,200 in Orange County.

We'll stay in touch by e-mail. It's going to call for a lot of trust on both sides.

Of the tenants who have put in their notices here over the past year, about 90 percent said they were leaving to buy a house.

In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't got to do too much work to build a mundane world, but don't get it twisted: you still got to do some work.

There are a couple of strategies for writing about an absence or writing about a loss. One can create the person that was lost, develop the character of the fiancee. There's another strategy that one can employ, maybe riskier... Make the reader suffer the loss of the character in a more literal way.

I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.