Meerkat Press

“Now the mask is hidden but that need is the same.”
― Kathe Koja, Dark Factory

“Marvin, you're here now," Vale said. He stood up, his knees popping. "The food sucks. They have severed animal heads in the bar. I don't know if you know that." His cigarette sparked against the gravel and he ratcheted open my walker in front of me. "But you're among friends, okay, and you're still walking upright and taking solids. You're winning. Anything beyond that is thinking too far ahead”
― Keith Rosson, Smoke City

“When she sat down on the tile next to him, unafraid, his kaleidoscope senses drank in the years that had been printed onto her mind before she was old enough to remember, and he told her a story, projecting into her darkness sensations of light and color and shape, butterflies swirling like silk-spun gold out through a window that opened to a big green field in the days before the bomb.”
― Mel Paisley, Love Hurts: A Speculative Fiction Anthology

“Leaning to kiss again, not a peck, not his cheek, with a sudden heat that surprises them both, cupping his face, sucking his tongue.”
― Kathe Koja, Dark Factory