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  • #1
    Kirsten Fullmer
    “Monique bit at the side of lip. “He’s pretty active, I don’t want to impose…”
    Tony stood and scooped up the puppy. “No, seriously, I’d love a little company.”
    Kirsten Fullmer, Problems at the Pub

  • #2
    Harvey Havel
    “It seemed as though he would never pull free, until he awoke one morning feeling kind of awkward, as though his hands had been lopped off by some Arabian sword during a routine druggie blackout, and in their place, pale and membranous hands that had been fit to his wrists by aliens that took him up while he slept and then brought him back down – all of it in an effort to help him move up to where he belonged in society.”
    Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

  • #3
    Douglas Weissman
    “She grabbed the phone from the counter and dialed a number she convinced herself she had forgotten, a number for 
    a home from which she tried desperately to run. A silence ate at her through the earpiece.”
    Douglas Weissman, Life Between Seconds

  • #4
    Gregory Dickow
    “Purpose gives perspective to your pain and powers you through it. Without it, your pain can paralyze you.”
    Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

  • #5
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Death is the ultimate test of faith.”
    Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

  • #6
    Charles Dowding
    “Gardening is easier and quicker when spacings are correct for different plants.”
    Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

  • #7
    Carolyn Cutler Hughes
    “When we see a door closed very tight, God sees a window right in our sight.”
    Carolyn Cutler Hughes, Through God's Eye

  • #8
    Donna Tartt
    “It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one and no thing hurts along with one's burned tongues and skinned knees, that one's aches and pains are all one's own. Even more terrible, as we grow older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us. Our own selves make us most unhappy, and that's why we're so anxious to lose them...”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #9
    Tina Traverse
    “We Are brothers, tied by blood, in our veins, what we spill. But it is a deadly secret that will forever bind us.”
    Tina Traverse, Destiny of the Vampire

  • #10
    Margaret Atwood
    “I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree. ”
    Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

  • #11
    Forrest Carter
    “Ye see, Little Tree, ain't no way of learning, except by letting ye do. Iff'n I had stopped ye from buying the calf, ye'd have always thought ye'd ought to had it. Iff'n I'd told ye to buy it, ye'd blame me fer the calf dying. Ye'll have to learn as ye go.”
    Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree

  • #12
    Ernesto Che Guevara
    “Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also imbued with that ancient melancholy of smoke, unifying everything with its grayish monotones, a perfect coupling with the gray mountain days.”
    Ernesto Che Guevara



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