Jeffie Monagan

“Good men are often more practical than pretty”
― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray

“Julia, hanging back, says, ‘How have you been, Stephen?’
I want to tell her everything. I want to find out what she’s been doing, what she plans to do but, at this fated moment, a vision of my stomach floats before me. It is a soggy marsh, green rushes growing round the edges, gas bubbles surfacing all over and bursting. The bubbling of the marsh is set to the music of creation, the percussive glottal stops of the Big Bang. I realize I have, at best, one complete sentence left in me. ‘Julia,’ I begin, composing in my head a deranged paean of love that I can never utter. ‘I regret that I am not myself today. Terry has poisoned me.’
‘You should go home,’ she says.”
― Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel

“It’s not my fault your beauty makes it difficult for me to focus.”
― S.G. Blaise, The Last Lumenian

“To see her face one more time. To have her hold me one more time without seeing the blood drip into the ocean and turn the water red. ”
― Douglas Weissman, Life Between Seconds