Mike Hoste

“the large print giveth and the small print taketh away.”
― Ian McDonald, King of Morning, Queen of Day

“Velico Sudel was staring at Copis as if she were some fearsome legendary monster he’d never actually believed in but who’d suddenly appeared in his office and started building a nest.”
― K.J. Parker, Shadow

“Students were laying about on the grass, accruing debt and trying to fuck each other.”
― Exurb1a, Logic Beach: Part I

“The sentence, “She was hollow, as though something had chewed a hole in her body and the hole had grown infected,” unless it’s been used before by someone else in a story she cannot recall.”
― Kij Johnson, At the Mouth of the River of Bees