The Phantom Cabinet Quotes

“Just before dawn, he received his final visitors. They were the same every night: a trio of cardboard robots, painted dull silver. Of the costumes’ occupants, John could see very little: pallid lips and burst blood vessels glimpsed through mouth and eye slits. The tiny automatons moved on stiffened limbs, trudging forward to claim their prizes.

They held plastic garbage bags, quarter-filled with fresh blood. Shivering, John tossed them some Smarties and slammed the door. Something about this last group always unnerved him.”
― Jeremy Thompson, The Phantom Cabinet

“Seasons continued to bleed from one to the next, their paces accelerating for each aging consciousness. Stars flared out in phoenix fire flashes, their dust tithing—each grain an alchemist’s bounty—soon reaped by solar winds. These same winds howled for the living, and all of those yet to be born.”
― Jeremy Thompson, The Phantom Cabinet