Sovereign 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.”
Read MoreTo have, to hold.
“I believed in kraken, sirens, the like. It wasn’t hard to believe that the stories that had been told had to come from some form of truth.”
Read MoreWhat the Sea Goddess Said
“Clever girls, House-defying girls. Girls who, for their troubles, for their sacrifice, were then cruelly abandoned by those same heroes”
Read MoreEternity is Terribly Dull Without Company
“Humans thought themselves eternal. They bottled stars, dug holes through their own planet’s ribs, stitched their world with wires so taut it snapped in an instant.”
Read MoreIris the Rainbow
“Trespass not my precious heart.”
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