Chrissy Lim

“Ava, we’re thinking of calling it a day.” The speaker was Shaw, Ava’s little brother. Still showing a bit of baby fat in his cheeks, the young man tried to furrow his brows to show his seriousness. Behind him, his friends were already packing up their tools and finding-buckets”
― Ken Liu, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

“helmet.” “A helmet?” I ask. “Yes.”
― Judy Blume, Tiger Eyes

“punched”
― Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

“After that, he went back to school. For the first few days, he got a lift with Weird Nick and his mother. Then one day when he got home, they had the Fiesta instead of the blue Volkswagen and a new jar of jam, and life returned to some kind of normality – on the outside, at least”
― Belinda Bauer, Rubbernecker