Megan Hex

“All of that requires that they do what you’re talking about: destroying our empathy and reducing our faith in reason. Those guys on the border laughed when they let you through because you’re not even human to them. You’re a unit of something else. They rename you ‘test subject’ or ‘enemy,’ or they assign you a race or a nation or a class—and then they don’t have to think about you anymore.”
― Jeremy Robert Johnson, The Loop

“This fits with the broad cultural script that insists that women are interested in stories of violence because of their own history of violation—except that the women in the survey clarified that they weren’t just talking about harm that had been done to them personally, but societal trauma, too. A lot of them mentioned 9/11. Pain doesn’t have to be personal to be a motivating force.”
― Rachel Monroe, Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession

“Lucy wondered where she might be at that exact moment if she hadn’t spent so much time trying to be the right version of herself for those around her.”
― Jeremy Robert Johnson, The Loop

“I looked for the clock over the front desk, which is made from the taxidermied body of a cuckoo and resembles a dad joke given flesh.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places