Phantoms
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The noises on the roof stopped. The six waited. The night seemed to be crouched like a wild thing, studying its prey, timing its attack.
“More than enough for me to catch the drift, and centipedes fresh from the freezer crawled up my spine. Somehow I guessed what had confronted Bob in the kitchen.”
― The Magic Cottage
― The Magic Cottage
“And it was quiet, so graveyard quiet. Even the floorboards had stopped groaning. The loudest thing was the stench in the air.”
― The Magic Cottage
― The Magic Cottage
“When you die, you’re gone. You no longer look out of your eyes, you no longer think all that pile of ego thoughts that make you who you are and have no true substance. Just like when you sleep. The only difference is that before you sleep you have the thought that you’ll wake up tomorrow and before you die you have the thought that you’ll never wake up. But the same thing happens.”
― Contact: Echoes in the Dark: Hard Science Fiction
― Contact: Echoes in the Dark: Hard Science Fiction
“What is the greatest spectacle without an observer who makes it real through his experience?”
― Contact: Echoes in the Dark: Hard Science Fiction
― Contact: Echoes in the Dark: Hard Science Fiction
“When you’re earning $1 million a week, you can’t afford to have the seventeenth drink.”
― Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
― Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
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