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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions. — Andre Breton

Maia screamed and woke. 'Serenity?' Cala's voice, Cala's angular shape outlined against the window. ' 'Tis an ironic title, in sooth,' Maia said feebly, realizing that the entangling garments of the nightmare were merely his bedsheets. His heart was hammering, and he was clammy with sweat. — Katherine Addison The Goblin...

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Time slowed as metal shards enveloped her like shattered glass. None pierced her of course, but it seemed as though she might be able to reach out and pluck one from the sky. She settled for stretching out an imagined hand, palm upturned, and letting a shard fall through it untouched like the ghost she had become. — G.S. Jennsen Vertigo

I blinked at him just casually talking about my new sex life with his genie - shiny head, and I knew at any second I would break into hysterics. — Laura Kreitzer Abyss

The dead steps down from the guillotine, carrying under his arm his sacrificed head. Apple trees are in blossom. The dead makes his way to the village tavern, and everyone watches. There, he pulls a chair and sits beside a table, ordering two bottles of beer, one for himself and one for his head. My mother wipes her hands on her apron and goes to serve him. The world is so quiet. One can hear the river, which sometimes forgets in its hurried flow, and runs backward. — Charles Simic The World...

The pink sun tumbled from the sky like a shooting star, turning day to night in the space of a trembling breath. What rose in its place was a moon made of rotting meat, its vast surface pitted with crawling black mold, glowing in a starless sky. — Craig Schaefer The Living End

She smiled again. Do you like cats? she said. Yes, said Richard. I quite like cats. Anesthesia looked relieved. Thigh? she asked, or breast? — Neil Gaiman Neverwhere

She comes dressed in a mayor's robe of chocolate paper with almond necklaces. The wind turns the corner of surprise in the platinum night, a night that is a night for sleeping. Naked, the wind turns the corner of the surprise. — Federico Garcia Lorca

I looked at the Pinocchio clock, and gave it Stan Laurel. "Isn't this a fine development?" Pinocchio's eyes went from side to side, but he didn't say anything. He never does. — Robert Crais Indigo Slam

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