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“Imagine, I can't stop saying. Imagine, I beg,
when I should have said, Look: paradise
is both a particle and a wave. You don't have
to believe in something for it to startle you awake.”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“Say it plain, see if it's powerful. Say it slant, see if it's possible. Distraction, diversion, the clumsy decorations? Cheap magic. A smoke screen. Without the truth, there can be no fiction. Nonsense needs reason. To push against. I didn't howl at the moon, I yelled at a lamp. Subject verse. Someone wept. Some things are more important than poetry.”
― Richard Siken, I Do Know Some Things

“She ran down the spine of the house, her body a shiver traveling over the staircase.”
― Shane Hawk, Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

“What are we really?” she asked. “What do you mean?” “Is it our blood that makes us who we are?”
― Shane Hawk, Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology