Status Updates From The New Weird

Mainstream Anglo-American fiction tends to be literal minded. A chair's a chair, a bus's a bus. You can't have the vertical stripes of a John Lewis logo morph into a vision of distant hills. It just won't do. Thus you have mainstream on the one hand & sci fi on the other. Only in sci fic does the logo morph. This bifurcation is less pronounced in European literature. The metaphysical's in the mainstream
~John Powell

Mice with three legs ( called trice) ran under the rows and cats very good at catching trice (called trousers) ran after them.

~ Steph Swainston, "The Ride of the Garbleratchet"

Everything is a passage, though not every passage leads somewhere.
~ Brian Evenson, "Watson's boy"