Austin Beeman

“Friendships die in all the manifold ways that anything human dies: they crash suddenly in a fiery explosion; they are murdered by others, whether with deliberate cold malice or as unnoticed collateral damage; they are struck by sudden cancer and wither in the space of a few agonizing months; they simply decline and fade with age.”
― Stephen Saperstein Frug, Zero Second

“he was writing elaborate decryption programs by eight, and when he was ten, he invented a shoe camera to film up the skirts of girls.”
― Chris Kassel, Magna Flamingo

“You have to remember that my parents are children of the fifties, raised on lead paint and Jell-O mold salads.”
― Chris Kassel, Magna Flamingo

“At the beach hut they’d been human, a woman, a man, a wife and mother and daughter and a husband and father and son, and they’d crossed themselves, tapped their nails and bitten their lips in unconscious angst. But when they’d got to the launch pad they were Hollywood and sci-fi, Space Odyssey and Disney, imagineered, branded and ready. The rocket peaked in a cap of gleaming newness, absolute and spectacular whiteness and newness, and the sky was a glorious and conquerable blue.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital