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“Who pissed on your cornflakes?”

— Andrea Smith

“I wanted to scream as I stood there, my toes hanging over the edge of the dock. I wanted to let a gut-wrenching howl…

— Keary Taylor

“Lexi screamed and almost dropped her bowl of popcorn.”

— Anonymous

“I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Oh my God!" I shouted, smacking at myself to get it off. The chanting abruptly stopped as I danced about the interior of the…

— Kim Harrison

“Her rage filled the house, flat stale smoke. It got into everything, into our hair and our food, like the fallout they talked to…

— Junot Díaz

“I left little packages in front of the doors; the people looked for them in the morning, and I knew, in some bit of…

— A.C. Gaughen

“Corn might be the epidemic that kills us, but I've always loved staring at a big field of it, perfectly planted.”

— Nickolas Butler

“So I'd grown up eating my words, and it wasn't until later that that I realized how many had gotten backed up inside me.…

— Lisa Ko

“The strangest thing. I came to the end of other people so quickly. Each new person was like a glass of water, and at…

— Arthur Phillips

“The boys ate warily, trying not to be seen or heard, the cornbread sticking, the buttermilk gurgling, as it went down their gullets.”

— Katherine Anne Porter

“Drunk people, loud people, obvious and angry people, people stammering and stumbling, spilling drinks and scarfing small burned sausages and cheese cubes on toothpicks.…

— Paul Theroux