“There is a duality to darkness known only to those who’ve been infected by its touch. Everyone knows the shadows: shallow, comfortable, mostly harmless places where one might nest for a night. But the depths of living pitch only visit… — Darrell Drake Copy Share Image
“♫ Climbed that roost, alighted right there. Made mush of his head for the onlooker bears. A two-pronger her prize, a meat most rare. Do-gooders will pay. Do-gooders will fear. ♫” — Darrell Drake Copy Share Image
“You aren’t falling apart. You’re well beyond that. You’re just rattling along now. Elven dolls doing what little you can to gather the pieces as they fall away. But you don’t know how to properly reattach them—a doll does not repair itself. So you hug those brittle fragments to your chest until you simply cannot hug anymore. Until you’ve had… — Darrell Drake Copy Share
“She could have rambled with all the fervor of a woman who had loved one entity for longer than most races live, and with the inviolable, unquestioned certainty found in dementia. There were references dated and sealed with meticulous care which she would have enthusiastically opened with the mirth of one proclaiming a lifetime of honors and awards. But that… — Darrell Drake Copy Share
“If the years have taught me one thing it's that those who care are always scarce. Those who genuinely care; not the acquaintances, false… — Darrell Drake Copy Share Image
“There is a duality to darkness known only to those who’ve been infected by its touch. Everyone knows the shadows: shallow, comfortable, mostly harmless… — Darrell Drake Copy Share Image
“♫ Climbed that roost, alighted right there. Made mush of his head for the onlooker bears. A two-pronger her prize, a meat most rare.… — Darrell Drake Copy Share Image
“Two coconuts dropped beside him. Each went about its death throes with a slight bounce and languorous crawl then fell still.” — Darrell Drake Copy Share Image
“Deception was an inherent trait of intelligent beings. Even his love, in her ample ardor, would weave him a guilty lie for his own… — Darrell Drake Copy Share Image
“Unnatural, unorthodox, amoral: those pretensions crumble when confronted by true happiness. You shouldn't give another the authority to draw a line defining the boundaries… — Darrell Drake Copy Share Image
“I was pregnable once,” Merill thought to contribute. She remembered how troublesome it made getting around, having a ripe belly. Couldn’t roll properly, couldn’t… — Darrell Drake Copy Share Image
“She set out for revenge, to run them through, to do what an elf, an elf must do.” The next verse was Merill’s to… — Darrell Drake Copy Share Image
