Jeremy Thompson > Quotes

“Seasons continued to bleed from one to the next, their paces accelerating for each aging consciousness. Stars flared out in phoenix fire flashes, their dust tithing—each grain an alchemist’s bounty—soon reaped by solar winds. These same winds howled for the living, and all of those yet to be born.”
― Jeremy Thompson, The Phantom Cabinet

“Just before dawn, he received his final visitors. They were the same every night: a trio of cardboard robots, painted dull silver. Of the costumes’ occupants, John could see very little: pallid lips and burst blood vessels glimpsed through mouth and eye slits. The tiny automatons moved on stiffened limbs, trudging forward to claim their prizes.

They held plastic garbage bags, quarter-filled with fresh blood. Shivering, John tossed them some Smarties and slammed the door. Something about this last group always unnerved him.”
― Jeremy Thompson, The Phantom Cabinet

“Peering past his abductors, he glimpsed dozens of prone corpses, splattered and reeking, their faces and torsos red-mushy. Beside him, two Ruger 10/22 semi-automatics rested. I bet those have my fingerprints all over ’em, he realized.”
― Jeremy Thompson, Silent Minority

“Whatever kept B.B. from unraveling seemed half-dissolved. Beaming with the jubilance of a spree-killing jester, he smiled a succession of secretive smiles, each more terrifying than the last.”
― Jeremy Thompson, Toby Chalmers Commits "Career" Suicide

“Suddenly, like a fizzling light bulb, the sun seems to wither on its interstellar vine. Everything darkles. Shadows caper in the stands and behind Sansu’s leaking, sunken eyes. For a few seconds, he abandons his human disposition, and enters a cosmic cognition wherein thought and feeling are unified—hungry, endless avarice—an all-embracing degradation spanning atoms and afterlives, planets and the souls therein.”
― Jeremy Thompson, The Land of Broken Sky

“Do you ever feel the void creepin’ closer, seeking to wrap you in an infinite zero, an all-encompassing nil shroud?”
― Jeremy Thompson, Let's Destroy Investutech