George D MacKinnon

“I saw a figure that awaited me in the portals. And I knew by the trailing robe of sea-purple, but by no other token, that the figure was Avyctes. For the face was no longer in its entirety the face of man, but was become a loathly fluid amalgam of human features with a thing not to be identified on earth. The transfiguration was ghastlier than death or the changes of decay; and the face was already hued with the nameless, corrupt and purulent color of the strange shadow, and had taken on, in respect to its outlines, a partial likeness to the squat profile of the shadow. The hands of the figure were not those of any terrene being; and the shape beneath the robe had lengthened with a nauseous undulant pliancy; and the face and fingers seemed to drip in the moon- light with a deliquescent corruption. And the pursuing umbrage, like a thickly flowing blight, had corroded and distorted the very shadow of Avyctes, which was now double in a manner not to be narrated here.”
― Clark Ashton Smith, Clark Ashton Smith’s Works

“as the Ides pushed their way into his sanctum with the greed and zeal of a banker extorting the poor.”
― V.M. Law, Cargo

“You going to stand here all day making goo goo eyes at us, or are we going to get moving?” Brian cracked a smile again. It was good advice. So they took it.”
― C Lowry, Chaos Zombie a post apocalyptic Boxset Adventures

“knew I couldn't take it back, I could only delay the awful realization from hitting my people. I never would have thought that it was the world I was failing," the king rambled. "Be still, Your Majesty. You are out of danger, but you will need to rest," Myranda said. "Your Majesty . . . Your Majesty! I am no king. I am barely a man. My name, my kingdom, my bloodline is tainted forever," he raged, throwing his crown to the ground.”
― Joseph R. Lallo, The Book of Deacon Anthology