Aaron Esthelm

“Somehow, having a staring skeleton standing in a dark corner staring at her was even worse than having it right next to her.”
― Pirateaba, The Wandering Inn

“I shush her with a finger to my lips. She obliges. I trace my free hand up against her cheek. I want to tell her not to fear death. I want to say it’s just another Change. Women our age know all about the Change”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“I decide I don’t care.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“Suddenly she felt someone- Most likely the Good wife, and boy, had she ever underestimated the intestinal fortitude of that lady- running for the switches which governed the circuit-breakers in her head. Goody had seen tendrils of smoke starting to seep out through the cracks in the closed doors of those panels, had understood what they meant, and was making a final, desperate effort to shut down the machinery before the motors overheated and the bearings froze.

there was an intolerably bright flash inside her head and then the lights went out. She did not faint prettily, like the heroine of a florid stage play, but was snapped brutally backward like a condemned murderer who has been strapped into the hotseat and has just gotten his first jolt of juice.”
― Stephen King, Gerald's Game