by Peter Bullen

“It takes a lot of nerve to ask a woman if she will let you clamber up her backbone. There's the danger that she won't take you seriously.”

by John Cohle

…how depressing to be stuck in a clean suit and a clean face and a brain that you can watch churn like the wheel on an old sawmill.”

by Rissa Pappas

“Crimes of opportunity are almost always disappointing. They feel like dumb luck, and they are.”

by John RC Potter

“‘Shaving my ass does not mean I am a bottom!’ Then, pausing for effect and continuing, ‘I would swear on a stack of bottoms! Er, Bibles, I mean.’”

by Justin Nicholes

“Snowflakes sailed in tight suicide spirals against the Minneapolis-St. Paul terminal windows, then slipstreamed in retreat.”

by Flo Ward

“‘Do you think we’ll go to work tomorrow?’ I ask, and this is somehow absurdly funny. ‘Why shouldn’t we? But also, how could we?’”