Ando Johnson’s Reviews > The Troop > Status Update

“They’d made a pact to be friends forever, but forever could be so, so brief.”

“There is an emotion that operates on a register above sherry terror. It lives on a mindless dog-whistle frequency. Its existence is in itself a horrifying discovery: like scanning a shortwave radio in the dead of the night and tuning it to an alien wavelength—a heavy whisper barely climbing above the static, voices muttering in a brutal language that human tongues could never Speak.”