Dolorous Haze

“I wondered about the masterminds who were directing all the mayhem. Did they really hope to survive? Or was I missing the point? Did they intend, instead, to incinerate themselves and all of us with them? Like mummified pharaohs and their entombed slaves. Why do that? Maybe just to prove that they owned the world. After all, you don’t own something unless you can destroy it.”
― Stepan Chapman, The Troika

“The sun began its dip behind the horizon and the walls sunk to augmented beige, and he could feel his body in the walls forty years later.”
― B.R. Yeager, Amygdalatropolis

“A man is attracted to a woman, a woman to a man, and with each step they take towards each other they lose something of themselves: a series of defeats, where they had hoped for victories.”
― Karin Boye, Kallocain

“Here, she said, there was no need to create stories of witches whose solution to everything was to simply devour the children.”
― J.M. Hushour, Weatherhead