Kristopher Jansma

“The best thing to do—usually—was to let him play these things out. Who was I to tell a genius it was time…

— Kristopher Jansma

“Each time it goes around a little bit, a second goes away.” “Where?” I asked, as the pendulum swung again. And again.…

— Kristopher Jansma

“After I charge their brains with my own brand of skeptical electricity, I unleash them—the New Cynics—upon a world that is slowly…

— Kristopher Jansma

“We couldn’t stop following the news. Every ten seconds we refreshed our browsers and gawked at the headlines. Dully we read blogs…

— Kristopher Jansma

“Does it sting like this because I've been robbed or because it was never mine to steal? ... Maybe an idea, like…

— Kristopher Jansma

“Everything I write is for her; none of it is ever good enough.”

— Kristopher Jansma

“This fountain commemorates Luxembourg’s two national poets—Lentz and Dicks,’” Jeffrey reads. “That had to be a tough name to get through school…

— Kristopher Jansma

“The travel sites all describe Luxembourg as a fairy tale come to life, but it feels less like a Grimm land of…

— Kristopher Jansma

“He extends a hand, larger than a dinner plate, and I have no choice but to shake it. I think I can…

— Kristopher Jansma

“We came to the city because we wished to live haphazardly, to reach for only the least realistic of our desires, and…

— Kristopher Jansma

“She’s just this character to you. Both of us are! And we always have been. You don’t know what goes on in…

— Kristopher Jansma

“the world.” Jeffrey just shakes his head. “You don’t know what it was like. You weren’t there when things got really bad.…

— Kristopher Jansma

“Evelyn was followed in by a sour-faced woman with long, glamorous dark hair and a stern-looking gentleman in a tuxedo who looked…

— Kristopher Jansma

“And for this imperfect immortality, what prices have been paid? How many livers, lungs, and veins? Shredded, polluted, shot? How many children…

— Kristopher Jansma