“But it was more than the chill of his skin and the strange way he was talking, it was his smell too that triggered something deep in me. He smelled not of sweat, as I might’ve expected, but of the lake, of the reeds and mud.”
Read More“None of our friends or family are going to be able to think about Morocco the same way after this. They’ll always think of it as that exotic, dangerous place where you went missing.”
Read More“I’d waged war against my Father because I was a child, and I was losing Him to Adam. I would rather be a rebel than a faithful son unloved.”
Read More“But what they knew not of was that this was not an evil of divine scale. This was one manufactured by society. And one that hid in the crevice of its incompetence at catching it.”
Read More“I’ll tell you once I open my mouth that I am a peach. Yes, a peach. I am a peach pitted with rot knocked from a branch no less distorted than yours.”
Read More“When I began to fall in love with Raymond Redd, he promised me, I will only change you for the better, and I believed him.”
Read More“One morning, the way he glared at her, his eyes moving over her with a fury she’d never seen before, made her realize there was no love left in them. It was as if he was plotting to rip the soul right out of her.”
Read More“The reflection is always there, a revelation trapped in algae and shadows, sunlight skittering through its surface, moonshine washing it like a spotlight. The only thing sweeter than his presence are his words.”
Read More“Since you do not fear them, I shall send vipers to guard you and your slaves and kill game for you to eat. In return, you must be my Medusa, my guardian, of this place until your father comes home and rebuilds it.”
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