“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.”
― At the Mouth of the River of Bees
― At the Mouth of the River of Bees
“the large print giveth and the small print taketh away.”
― King of Morning, Queen of Day
― King of Morning, Queen of Day
“she’d reached the age where if you called yourself old, some people wouldn’t correct you and some people would get mildly offended.”
― The Year's Best Science Fiction, Vol. 1: The Saga Anthology of Science Fiction 2020
― The Year's Best Science Fiction, Vol. 1: The Saga Anthology of Science Fiction 2020
“Students were laying about on the grass, accruing debt and trying to fuck each other.”
― Logic Beach: Part I
― Logic Beach: Part I
“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.”
― Shadow
― Shadow
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