Irene Michelle

“She remarked that the red bulb he’d bought for the lamp in his room was corny, but the more her eyes adjusted, the more she realized how wrong she was. It also didn’t hurt that TLC’s “Red Light Special” played softly on repeat.”
― Ran Walker, Bees + Things + Flowers: Microfictions

“I’d never meant to make them sad or have to keep apologizing for things I did, so I decided to keep my mouth shut as best I could outside home. I would no longer do anything of my own accord, and would either just mimic what everyone else was doing, or simply follow instructions.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“The idea is to show him that you were always in total control of yourself and your vehicle—while he lost control of everything.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

“you were gone, with nothing left of you but some vague memory in the mind of a fixture like Ratz, though heart or lungs or kidneys might survive in the service of some stranger with New Yen for the clinic tanks.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer