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  • #1
    Kimber Silver
    “Even in ruin, there is beauty.”
    Kimber Silver

  • #2
    Kimber Silver
    “Light from an almost full moon bathed the flat expanse of land in a milky glow. A scraggly coyote trotted into sight, and when it stopped a few yards in front of his pickup, Lincoln wrapped his arms around the steering wheel to study the animal.
    Seconds after hearing the report, bullets pinged off his pickup.”
    Kimber Silver, Bullets in the Briar

  • #3
    Kimber Silver
    “Silence cut him to the quick as it breathed a tale he didn’t want to hear.”
    Kimber Silver, Broken Rhodes

  • #4
    Kimber Silver
    “The stars sparkled in an inky sky as they drove through the hot summer night—rhinestones scattered across midnight silk. Out here, a person could almost see forever across the flat expanse of farmland. Wide-open spaces revealed little towns miles away, their lights glinting like rubies and pearls. Kansas held a subtle beauty that only a quiet eye could see.”
    Kimber Silver, Broken Rhodes

  • #5
    Kimber Silver
    “This town was caught in a perpetual state of stagnation. The same three thousand or so people were still living the same small-town life. They thought they ruled the universe from the confines of this one-mile square, yet their world ended at the city limits.”
    Kimber Silver, Broken Rhodes

  • #6
    Kevin Ansbro
    “The oak trees had shed their leaves, revealing the inky thumbprints of crows' nests in the crackle glaze of dark branches.”
    Kevin Ansbro, The Fish That Climbed a Tree

  • #7
    Kevin Ansbro
    “Ulysses found himself hopelessly adrift within the confines of a yew-hedge maze, the leaf tips of which were lit by a Communion-wafer moon that rested on the black tongue of night.”
    Kevin Ansbro, The Fish That Climbed a Tree

  • #8
    Kevin Ansbro
    “The snow fell as softly as a poet’s tears.”
    Kevin Ansbro, The Fish That Climbed a Tree

  • #9
    C.L.  Brown
    “Don't waste time thinking about them. If they walked away from your love, they don't deserve your pain.”
    C.L. Brown

  • #10
    Kevin Ansbro
    “A woman is like an ocean, sir, beautiful to look at but dangerous to cross.”
    Kevin Ansbro, The Minotaur's Son & Other Wild Tales

  • #11
    Kevin Ansbro
    “For anyone with a library in their head and love in their heart,”
    Kevin Ansbro, The Fish That Climbed a Tree

  • #12
    Kevin Ansbro
    “Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”
    Kevin Ansbro

  • #13
    Kevin Ansbro
    “Poppy, a chronic insomniac in her first life, since found that sleep arrived easily, washing over her in a soporific tide that carried with it the flotsam of ambrosial dreams.”
    Kevin Ansbro, The Fish That Climbed a Tree

  • #14
    Kevin Ansbro
    “María was out of the blocks the moment she heard the doorbell jangle. She came rushing from the kitchen to greet her childhood friend with cilantro hugs and chipotle kisses.”
    Kevin Ansbro, In the Shadow of Time

  • #15
    Joseph Brodsky
    “For darkness restores what light cannot repair.”
    Joseph Brodsky

  • #16
    Kevin Ansbro
    “A woman is like an ocean; beautiful to look at but dangerous to cross.”
    Kevin Ansbro

  • #17
    Kimber Silver
    “An eerie feeling of being watched took hold as an ill-tempered wind tore across the prairie, stirring up a dust devil.”
    Kimber Silver, Bullets in the Briar

  • #18
    Kimber Silver
    “The unkempt clapboard residence sported a copious amount of bare wood. Years of rain mixed with rust from metal window screens had stained the cladding at the corner of each opening, creating an illusion that the house was weeping bloody tears. Dead cottonwood trees looked on like silent mourners.”
    Kimber Silver, Bullets in the Briar

  • #19
    Kimber Silver
    “A prickly pear cactus had grown around the base of a rusted water pump next to a dry stock tank. Brilliant yellow flowers smiled at him from atop each teardrop-shaped pad.

    “Even in ruin, there is beauty,” Lincoln observed aloud.”
    Kimber Silver, Bullets in the Briar

  • #20
    Kimber Silver
    “Lincoln prowled the nearly empty streets as a sinking sun left touches of gold along the edges of feathery clouds that floated aimlessly in a late-summer sky.”
    Kimber Silver, Bullets in the Briar



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