BLOOD AND COOKIES
"As the first tear ran down my face, I slumped to the ground."
- FANTASY
- THRILLER
"As the first tear ran down my face, I slumped to the ground."
“Please, I wouldn’t ask you if I had anyone else to go to. I swear to God, I’ll pay you back. I just owe Pete for this car I bought off him...”
“They pull away from my touch, and wander off. I guess I’m not alone. I don’t like that. I prefer the solitude.”
“I don’t join them. I don’t rest. I'm on a time limit. It’s hard to know when my time will be up, when the biological clock that is on the Mainland will run out.”
“I remember perfectly when my mother died and you let me cry in your embrace, there in the garden, and then dried my face with your malabar-stained fingertips.”
“It seemed to seep from the very pores of the earth itself and offered the place a pale illumination.”
“ If the conspirators had taken Rome, maybe it would be a different story. But one man against the senate, betrayed by his closest friends? Everyone loves an under-dog.”
“The silence that fell rotted into an intolerable discomfort, putrefying the air. Another throat clear did nothing to shift it.”