Ayee C.

“There was nothing miraculous about the little girl. Were it not for the ocean of scars splattered against her skin like spilled paint, she would have seemed like any other. But her misfortune was on display for all to see.”
― Roslyn Reed, A Hemorrhage of Us

“Molly steeled herself. She knew what he was seeing: her somewhat lopsided breasts, the stretch marks at her hips, the hair she tidied up with a razor in the shower when she thought of it and not often, the swelling at her ankles that had become semipermanent now that she spent most of her day on her feet.

He saw all of it and loved it all. And when the shadows disappeared, he wore nothing but the look of a man who knows firsthand what a miracle is.”
― Maria Vale, Molly Molloy and the Angel of Death

“it seemed the land favored the drink of men and had rid itself of cool water long ago. The barkeep’s pours never ran dry, but the town well certainly did.”
― Rocio Carranza, My Dreams Come True and Other Dreadful Tales

“IT HAS BEEN SAID that the world began with a bang, but as it ends, slowly…arduously… Well, many may be inclined to say that the ending of life as we know it culminated in a bang. If many were still alive. How ironic. The beginning and end of the world, together, in a full circle moment—as though meeting for the first and last time.”
― Adrielle Reina, A Ballad of Inferno & Ruin