Jayson Proch

“Thinking about the weather was one way of shutting out of his mind the appalling bloody human mess sprawled out over the bed of this seedy hotel room in central London. The sight and smell was sickening - even to a hardened detective like him. Felling the bile rising in his throat again, he hurried out into the dimly lit corridor. “Where are you, Sergeant? Is the doctor here yet?”
― Mark Ellis, The French Spy

“Against the tide of violence
something spoken from the silence
like an arrow parting air
with the sharpened point of love.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“The plus sign is a hipster ampersand.”
― William Gibson, Agency

“I prefer death to dishonor for me and my child.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood