Austin Beeman

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

“nearly every dude I know is named Mike or Billy or Steve or Joe-Bob or some variation thereof, and as a subset of mankind, they were too emotionally immature to be memorable.”
― Chris Kassel, Magna Flamingo

“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

“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