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“It was not that such labor scared me—being a maid had always filled me with purpose. Cleaning was so necessary, whether you lived as a prince or a pauper, the work seemed to me almost sacred. It was only—I could no longer accept how I would be treated.”
― The Maid and the Crocodile
― The Maid and the Crocodile
“Don’t you understand? When you’re standing on their side, you’re the bizarre genius, the miraculous hero, the force of the rebellion, the flower that blooms alone. But the second your voice differs from theirs, you’ve lost your mind, you’ve ignored morality, you’ve walked the crooked path.”
― 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]
― 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]
“The stairs were steel-reinforced slabs of concrete, worn down by years of foot traffic, each step canted a slightly different angle from its neighbours. I like that. I liked things that had been solidly made and that wore the evidence of hard use, of survival.”
― Sister Mine
― Sister Mine
“The scars on his torso dance and swirl like tadpoles in a murky puddle, ribcage resembling ripples in the water.”
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“AMAZONGOOGLEFACE ANNOUNCES INTENT TO ACQUIRE DISNEYAPPLESOFT The deal would result in a combined company worth approximately $97.3 quadrillion. "This will be good for consumers," said Jeff Bezos, CEO of AmazonGoogleFace, speaking from the company's offices on an icy dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt.”
― A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
― A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
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