Austin Beeman

“every time I lose a lover, I mourn by quitting my job,”
― Chris Kassel, Magna Flamingo

“The snow came quickly, white hornets stinging in the thin atmospheric night.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, The Big Book of Science Fiction

“She watched us go with envious fear.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, The Big Book of Science Fiction

“A man approached death rather decently in the Air Forces. He died well-fed and clean-shaven, if that was any comfort. He was at the front only a few hours of the day, instead of day and night for months on end. In the evening he came back to something approximating a home and fireside. He still had some acquaintance with an orderly life, even though he might be living in a tent. But in the infantry a soldier had to become half beast in order to survive.”
― Ernie Pyle, Brave Men