Nate Trier

“Silence blew from the hole she had dug like smoke. She could feel what lay just beyond. The new countryside. The unspeaking multitude. Steeples and arches of bone; temples of silence. She felt the great shapes that moved there, majestic and unfurled, utterly silent, utterly dark.”
― Nathan Ballingrud, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual Collection