“She leaned into nothing and the nothing held her.”
— Inside Edge, Fiona MacKenzie
“The body remembering what the mind had tried to forget.”
— Brass and Circumstance, Freya Thornbury
“The valley did its best work at dawn, before the day got its hands on it.”
— Mine to Keep, Delia Rhodes
“The delta gave up its light the way it gave up everything else — slowly, without announcement, and then all at once.”
— The Quiet Water, Nadia Sokolova
“I look like a carnation gained sentience and immediately regretted it.”
— Maid of Disaster, Poppy Fairweather
“She was so good at running. She had six weeks of practice.”
— Buried Warm, Sable Wilde
“Rest, it turned out, was the one procedure she could not perform on herself.”
— The Surrender Clause, Simone Ashford
“You would run through a wall if I named the wall the enemy.”
— The Rival in Her Furs, Sigrid Bjornsdottir
“Young, perhaps students, looking at each other with the intensity of people who have not yet learned that intensity fades.”
— What the Light Revealed, Astrid Norén
“I've told worse ones about better men.”
— Gloves Off, Cass Merrick