Opal

“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.”
― Jordan Ifueko, The Maid and the Crocodile

“Sitting comfortably on an old vehicle uniframe in scuffed up boots and a long hoodie so holey it should take up religion.”
― Jordan Kurella, Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn’t Die

“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.”
― Charles Yu, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers

“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.”
― Nalo Hopkinson, Sister Mine