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Author: Poppy Z. Brite
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  1. Poppy Z. Brite _ Lost Souls

    Zillah took her arm and led her toward the van. Ann kept her arm squeezed against her body so that his fingers would come into contact with the sideswell of her breast. He didn't move his hand away. Soon she felt his fingers begin to move, subtly caressing her, a forefinger darting out to graze her nipple. The nipple shivered erect,
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  2. Poppy Z. Brite _ Lost Souls

    My grandmother told me you shouldn't try to define evil, that the minute you think you've got it all pinned down, a kind of evil you never even thought of will sneak up behind you and jump inside your head. I don't think anyone knows what evil is. I don't think anyone has the right to say.
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  3. Poppy Z. Brite _ Lost Souls

    Death doesn't hurt," said one of the twins, and a light came into his silver eyes. "Death is dark, death is sweet." The other twin took up the litany. "Death is all that lasts forever. Death is eternal beauty." "Death is a lover with a thousand tongues-" "A thousand insect caresses-" "Death is easy.
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  4. Poppy Z. Brite _ Lost Souls

    AS WE THINK, SO WE ARE;
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  5. Poppy Z. Brite _ Lost Souls

    Help the ones you love, his grandmother had told him, help them when you can, and after that, mind your business. Your gift doesn't give you the right to go rearranging other people's lives for them. You might see their souls, but they won't always want you to be their mirror.
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  6. Poppy Z. Brite _ Drawing Blood

    All at once it hit him: this was power too, just as surely as smashing your fist into someone's face, just as surely as putting a hammer through someone's skull. The power to make another person crazy with pleasure instead of fear and pain, to have every cell in another person's body at your thrall.
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  7. Poppy Z. Brite _ Drawing Blood

    They were kissing again, carefully at first, learning the shape and texture of each other's lips, testing the sharpness of the teeth behind them.It's too fast, said a panicky voice in his mind. And too dangerous. He'll drink your juices, taste your brain, crack your soul open like an egg!Hell, I think I want him to do all that.
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  8. Poppy Z. Brite _ Drawing Blood

    Terry remembered a summer two or three years ago when there had been a plague of luna moths {...} One night Ghost has mused aloud that to the bats, the moths' blood must taste like crème de la menthe.
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  9. Poppy Z. Brite _ Lost Souls

    Let the night come. We are not afraid.
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  10. Poppy Z. Brite _ Exquisite Corpse

    And what was I if not death's ghostwriter?"
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  11. Poppy Z. Brite _ Soul Kitchen

    In every long-term relationship are a few pockets of deep and dangerous water into which one can step unaware if not careful. Eventually, somebody drowns or the interested parties post warning signs around these pockets.
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  12. Poppy Z. Brite _ Exquisite Corpse

    I press my hands against my chest, wishing I could somehow be even closer to him. I hate skin; I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever.
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