Tak! quoted The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler
Damira followed the blood down the hill.
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Damira followed the blood down the hill.
There was a vulture on the mailbox of my grandmother’s house.
At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created.
A sentient space station should have perfect temperature, Mallory Viridian thought.
— Chaos Terminal by Mur Lafferty (The Midsolar Murders, #2)
Content warning infant death
Sarah knew Rebecca's babe was dead as soon as the head slid free, from the look on Mistress June's face.
Let’s go to the baths today, Miss Ikuko said, so we all got ready.
Each year when Shesheshen hibernated, she dreamed of her childhood nest.
They asked me, “When was the last time you saw Doctor Fell?” and the memory hole I tripped into was ridiculous.
There was a fly walking on Cordelia’s hand and she was not allowed to flick it away.
The world roared.
— Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Here is what I remember most about the months I spent searching for dark matter: there are some things in the universe you can only find by looking away from them.
— In Universes by Emet North
I’d thought the jungles of the eastern Empire to be oppressively hot, but as I sat in the prow of the little canal boat and felt the sweat slip down my brow, I decided the north was, without question, far worse.
— A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett (Shadow of the Leviathan, #2)
Abe Kalotay died in his front yard in late February, beneath a sky so pale it seemed infected.
Why do you feed the cats, othala?
I want to feel everything, the light, the noise, the dark, even the cold and fear.
— Dual Memory by Sue Burke