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Urban Gothic

by Brian Keene (Goodreads Author)

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A Dreadful Splendor

by B.R. Myers (Goodreads Author)

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Wheel of the Infinite

by Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)

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“I wonder how often I occupy spaces that were recently inhabited by dead people. I wonder who will occupy the spaces
I've inhabited, after I'm dead.”
― Emily Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

tags: death, fr, real

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“Lady Ramkin drawing herself up haughtily was not a sight to forget, although you could try. It was like watching continental drift in reverse as various subcontinents and islands pulled themselves together to form one massive, angry protowoman.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

tags: fantasy, humor, metaphor

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“I've been thinking a great deal about time and motion lately, about being a still point in the ceaseless rush.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

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“There was the sound of bolts sliding back. Then the voice said, 'Would you mind giving it a push? The Door of Knowledge Through Which the Untutored May Not Pass sticks something wicked in the damp.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

tags: fantasy, humor

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“After everything, Kindred found comfort and safety and life here, kindling between the two of them, a fire sheltered in the curving hollow between their two bodies, growing in the pause between one word and the next, feeding on meaning and desire and something deeper and bigger, a force that braided circlets of grass and made mattresses into escape ropes.”
― Joshua Phillip Johnson, Tales of the Forever Sea

tags: lgbtq, love

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