Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom #1)
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I get the perks of living with an employed electrician in a decent neighborhood of Seattle, and he gets his own private live-in funnyman.
Daniela
I too will one day give someone the benefit of living with their own live-in funny-man
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If only the Walker would come back through the door with a new Seahawks jersey for Winnie and she wouldn’t even struggle while it got put on or secretly pee under the bed anymore.
Daniela
Aw Charlie is a Seahawks girly
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one of my Mediocre Servants left her arm in the living room, which I believe speaks to their general ineptitude. I played with it momentarily, but found its pungency off-putting and resumed licking my anus.
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It seemed that being female meant to be prey, even among your own species.
Daniela
Way too real
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An earthworm rose from the soil, dramatically postulating about “the great change” and how “She will show no mercy as She takes back what is Hers and that it is time for the Great Coming, the inevitable hostile takeover of Her relentless hands.” I ate him.
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DENNIS! DENNIS! I left Dennis!
Daniela
God damn i was wondering when he would notice!!!
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I’m not sure why everyone hates opossums so much; they may look like someone shaved the buttocks of a poodle and taught it to talk through its asshole, but they are generally pretty likable critters.
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“He died figuratively?” I tried to clarify. “No, like how I die when there’s danger, I can just drop dead like this.” He passed away in front of us, tongue hanging out. I’d seen a buttload of death lately and this was very convincing.
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I had a Dennis to return to and the longer I was away from him, the harder it was to breathe.
Daniela
If something happens to Dennis I will riot
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(Small fact for you here: the rough translation of “zoo” in bird twitter is “creature quilt” because that’s what it looks like from above, a blanket made up of species-separated enclosures.)
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They were attracted to all the glass because they’d mistaken it for what they were really looking for: screens.
Daniela
:o my face as I'm reading this on a screen
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The One Who Spits held Cinnamon by her neck and shook her, three sharp snaps sideways, and then she was still.
Daniela
I'm sad
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A bird who had a heart that had been broken again and again, but that had refused to stop beating.
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Maybe what really mattered was what was on the inside, as was the case with Big Jim’s refrigerator.
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We pondered the implications in utter silence, except for the rhythmic masturbation of a nearby squirrel.
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“Poodle doodle doo,” she murmured in a pitch-perfect tone, and that was the end of Winnie the Poodle. Except that suddenly a violent shattering of glass window alerted Winnie to an intruder!
Daniela
yayyyyyyyy
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Trust, it turned out, was a very beautiful and fragile thing with a taste like wild raspberries and experienced only by the very brave.
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The breeze told a story and Dennis was reading it cover to cover like Big Jim and his Big Butts™ issues.
Daniela
Oh, Big Jim
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The crows cawed at us from above. “GO! NOW! THEY’RE HERE!” But Dennis and I were frozen. Fear, curiosity, shock, whatever it was, it had us in its icy claws and we were fused to tarmac.
Daniela
No no no no
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His ears streamed behind him like the most beautiful wings I’d ever seen and then a sharp pain in my chest stabbed repeatedly because I knew he couldn’t keep up this pace for long. Dennis didn’t have the endurance for it. He wasn’t a greyhound or an Alaskan husky. He was a professional slob.
Daniela
I'm gonna cry
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Dennis was not a gloater or an “I told you so” type of dog. He was just a hero, plain and simple.
Daniela
I'm still crying but happy crying
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“I’ve let you down—” I started. “We are grateful to you.” “What? I panicked, froze, and then hid in a bucket of ice cream.” “Dennis knew what to do because of what you taught him. You and Dennis are a partnership. You are murder. And we consider you family.”
Daniela
:')
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And then there were just the horrible sounds of sick MoFos and their destruction as they took the being I loved most in this world away from me.
Daniela
How could they fucking do this to me
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Its velvety canvas held rows and rows of cartoon cream sheep and just two black ones that I could count who were facing the wrong way. I thought they represented me and my Dennis.
Daniela
:'(
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The thing about cats is that they’re always where they want to be. Genghis Cat was here for Dennis. And everyone on earth knows that if you have the respect of a cat, it means your soul is one worth being around.
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And here, I silently said goodbye to Dennis. And to my brave little friend Cinnamon. And finally to Big Jim.
Daniela
MY HEART IS SAD
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Big Jim was not a crow, but he knew about the loyalty of murder, which makes him as much crow as any I’d met. “Crows before hoes,” said Big Jim, pretending he wasn’t drowning as I sat on his shoulder and collected his tears.
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Out of everything I’d been through, leaving Dennis was still by far the hardest thing I’d ever done, but I had no choice. Because I lived for the two of us now; I lived for Dennis and I lived for me, and apparently we both had an insatiable thirst for danger.
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Ghubari—resigned commitment. Pressa—panic and fear. Me—here we fucking go.
Daniela
I am S.T.
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“Not yet, look; that one is watching us,” I told her. And he was, with a ravenous look I’d given many a Cheeto®.
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Great gray ears and powerful trunks lifted upward to take in the odd sight—a crow, an African gray, and a bald eagle being ridden by another crow (very handsome).
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And the moment I laid my beady little hybrid eyes upon you, my nestling, I was a goner. I fell in love with the smoothness of your skin and the roundness of your perfect little face that felt like discovering a new planet and a whole new beginning, a new chance at life.
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I named you Dee after your Uncle Dennis, who I promised to tell you all about and who lives on in everything we do. Uncle Dennis who floated away on the wings of a butterfly.
Daniela
Crying again
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I am The One Who Keeps you, my nestling. I am The One Who Keeps us safe. I’m The One Who Keeps the stories alive. I’m The One Who Keeps up hope, staving off The Black Tide.
Daniela
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