House of Hunger

by Alexis Henderson

She’d never been able to understand why people who had so much fought over so little. What was the point of war when everyone had full bellies and more money than they could ever spend? What more could they possibly want? As far as Marion was concerned, they were simply too rich and too bored and looking for violent ways to pass the years.

“One doesn’t have to die to know that the experience is less than ideal.”

“I had no real fondness for the city . . . at least not the parts of it I was reared in. But I suppose nostalgia gilds everything, even the worst places.”

One shouldn’t need to inflict pain to be listened to and regarded with some measure of respect.”