Steve Chisnell

“There are stories that don't need a plot. Sooner or later they rise above the confusion and untangle their mysteries in a series of sentences.”
― Patrice Nganang, Mount Pleasant

“The future can never be larger than the past," she said to his disappearing back. "What will happen can never escape what has.”
― Phillip Arrington, The Serpent's Sage

“Moments recalled like friends. It was that way or another.
We’re fairly certain either way. Stories. They are with us.
Time doesn’t forsake. It doesn’t soothe or decrease. Never.”
― Simon J. Ortiz, Out There Somewhere (Volume 49)

“Evil?" Womble rarely used the word in his work. It was a storybook word. Neither right nor wrong. A word made up to fill a gap in how to talk about the world when it tilted on its side spilling out more blood and pain than people could stand.”
― Phillip Arrington, The Serpent's Sage