Steve Wallace

“Your culture showed the Null more than us, but we have seen examples of our people in your historical records and media. I do not know how you latched onto our likeness. It is most likely one of my brethren visited your world in the past. Some of my people are oddsmakers, and they likely visited this planet to get a sample of the human stock in order to make predictions for the crawl. Visiting the planet except for official Syndicate business was illegal, of course, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.”
― Matt Dinniman, Carl's Doomsday Scenario

“So alien abductions were really a thing?” I said. “Imagine that.” “What about the probes?” Donut asked. “I remember them talking about the probes on television.” “I assume you’re talking about anal probes?” Evo asked. “Yes, we’ve heard about this, as well. If that really happened, it was likely done by the Null. You called them the Grays. They are a nasty, unpleasant race. Perverts, all of them.”
― Matt Dinniman, Carl's Doomsday Scenario

“The city became a free-for-all at night. I wanted to be settled well before then. I could only handle so much drama and violence per day. The pub was called The One-Eyed Narwhal, but the logo was of a fat, bald human unzipping his pants, grinning lewdly. “Carl, this place looks disgusting,” said Donut.”
― Matt Dinniman, Carl's Doomsday Scenario

“It was during that time she’d taken me to the circus. It hadn’t been one of the major traveling circuses, like Ringling Brothers, but a small, ghetto one. Anyone who has ever lived in the American southwest knows exactly what I’m talking about. Even little kid me had registered that this was a low-rent version of the real deal.”
― Matt Dinniman, Carl's Doomsday Scenario