Claudia Sorsby

“What are you doing Friday night?" I asked.

"Whatever you tell me to do." The line dripped with the kind of innuendo they invented the Hays Code for.”
― Stephen Spotswood, Fortune Favors the Dead

“Eduardo: DO IT IN PERSON YOU UNBELIEVABLE PASTRY FORK OF A MAN”
― John Scalzi, When the Moon Hits Your Eye

“Patrick hadn't been to a party since he was five years old, when the clamor of twenty over-sugared children in such disorganized proximity had led to a meltdown on a scale rarely witnessed during musical chairs. The very word 'party' had the power to trigger in him flashbacks of wailing classmates, overturned furniture, and a big brown dog gulping down spilled jelly.”
― Belinda Bauer, Rubbernecker

“You're not the kind of girl who'd be in a place like this at a time like this. Not the kind of girl who'd sit next to a guy who's the kind of guy who'd be in Bright Lights, Big City II and be so [spaced out/coked up/polypharmaceutically prepositioned/ (Add/delete as appropriate)] that he thinks he's the kind of guy who'd be in a pastiche of Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler. It was pre-assigned seating.”
― Helen DeWitt, Your Name Here