Flags Quote by Richard L. Ratliff

“The gunsmoke whipped away in the wind and the sudden noise faded and the jet whine came back, low and steady.”

— Lee Child

“The scrape and snap of Keds on loose alley pebbles seems to catapult their voices high into the moist March air blue above the…

— John Updike

“The flyscreen door is torn at the edges. Fraying. I open it and knock on the wood. The sound rhymes with my heartbeat.”

— Markus Zusak

“CRACK! The retort was deafening, and unmistakable. Gunfire.”

— Andrew Warren

“What’s in a glove? And for that matter, where might a glove have been, or gone, and to what future did all these worn-out…

— Chris Baldwin

“He knew the sound of an AK-47. It made a high-pitched, more mechanical crack than the American rifle, the M16, which made a deeper,…

— Mark Bowden

“I hear a loud bang from outside and wince as the movers continue their apparent mission to ding, dent, or scratch every last thing…

— Penelope Bloom

“Comes a day when everything you thought you had put behind you sets up its tent in the middle of what you were still…

— Laird Hunt

“And lying there, amid the tall, still grass and beneath the star-drunk sky, listening to the just-this-side-of-inaudible sound of her rhythmic breathing and the…

— John Green

“I'll rip the fucking asshole's dick off and stuff it down his douche-bag throat. Take my whip and cornhole the bastard peckerheaded fuckwad till…

— Cherise Sinclair

“So, here’s to folds!”

— Giulia Enders

“4. Full Circle Today I like the traffic jam. The engine noises heard in detail. My whole life, a river of thresholds, stitches itself…

— Richard Cronshey