To the Sea and Stars
“Buck lived two lives, and one needed to end.”
Read MoreWhere am I?
“You are just a son. Your mother’s greatest creation. While I am her thieving damnation.”
Read MoreThe Somewhere Blues
“I open my eyes wider than golf balls and take in every photon of diffuse light. True, they fill mostly with blue, but it comes in many shades, and I'm familiar with them all.”
Read MoreSovereign and Spice and Everything Nice
“It was sovereignty and prophecy; fate. Like the end was assured but without the blame of fault. As if bidden by the gods themselves.”
Read MoreQueen Jurata and the Amber Palace
“She did not die in battle, and she could not die naturally. Jurata died as peacefully as a god has ever died.”
Read MoreThe Lights of a Hunting Party
“Once he hit the water, he would be safe. He could swim. And this man was here to help him.”
Read MoreStolen Skin
“He looks down at his hands, pale and tinged blue, the color of a drowned corpse, with webbing linking his fingers together. He despises his hands, just like he despises her.”
Read MoreMy Trust Must Be
“Two truths and a lie:
You might’ve heard me called ‘Lady of the Lake’ in the lab; that’s because I’m always finding the shit everyone else seems to lose. There is a protein in my brain that has already spelled my doom; one day I’ll wake up and never be able to go to sleep again, an insomniac until I die. I love the water.”
Buckwheat Flower of the Ocean
“A buckwheat flower cannot stay in the ocean, let alone salt water, if it is to bloom.”
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