Paul Pope

“The undeniable appalling comprehension that death couldn’t be spellbound and contorted to appease her. There was no way to tame or beckon it with total accuracy”
― Aron Beauregard, The Slob

“In refusing to be a stepping stone”
― M.L. Wang, Blood Over Bright Haven

“I began to think that my mother’s final act had been something inspired. North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa: by giving me to Harnett, she had released me from our shared reclusion, and now each state I passed through became my home, because home was anywhere with grass and dirt and stone, and my compatriots, my family, were those who waited beneath to greet me.”
― Daniel Kraus, Rotters

“The vacuum had somehow stopped”
― Aron Beauregard, The Slob