Peter K

“The slope of her eyeliner curved in a cruel arch as her expression shifted from manufactured warmth to unfiltered disdain. I could have loved her for the honesty in that look.”
― Avi Silver, Pluralities

“The whole of him, contained, constrained by the limits of her dilating pupil.”
― Avi Silver, Pluralities

“What are you looking at? What are you looking at? What are you looking at. The words pressed harder, squirming until the lightboard in my chest went dark. I walked toward the South Side stop, feeling the ugly desire to be shouted at one more time, to figure out what it was everyone was seeing when they looked at me.”
― Avi Silver, Pluralities

“Only the strong, the rich, and the dying think truth is a necessity; the rest of us know it for a luxury.”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief