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rsadelle"I'm dying," the angel corrected Anthony. Indeed. His halo, previously as red as the Texaco logo, now flickered an anemic pink. His once-bright feathers emitted a sallow, sickly aura, as if infested with aging fireflies. Tiny scarlet veins entwined his eyeballs. "The entire heavenly host is dying. Such is the depth of our sorrow."
--James Morrow, Towing Jehovah
I remember a sloe-eyed skinhead who went home with me because he said I was a nice white bloke, not a bleeding queer like most of these others that chatted him up in the pubs of Soho. (What he was doing in the pubs of Soho, I cannot tell you.) He did not seem inclined to revise his opinion even as I sucked his cock and slid two greased fingers into his anus. I noticed later that he had a dotted line tattoed in scarlet round his throat, along with the words CUT HERE. I had only to follow directions. ("You look like a bleeding queer," I'd told his headless corpse, but Mr. White English had nothing to say for himself anymore.)
--Poppy Z. Brite, Exquisite Corpse
I did acid and X last night and I just drank three cups of coffee. I'm a little out of it.
--Poppy Z. Brite, Exquisite Corpse
Here's another question, God: What did Mary say when the angel said to her, "You're going to have a baby and he's going to be the Messiah"? Wasn't she terrified?
--Virginia Euwer Wolff, "Religion: From the Greek Re Legios, to Re-Link," I Believe in Water
"As my father said then, you do not collect pain like souvenirs. Nor do you hoard it away like money, because it can buy you nothing. You hurt for a while and then it is gone. You can't remember pain, except that it hurt, and maybe a lot, and you pray it will never hurt again." Pogo paused to think. "And if your heart has learned from its pain, you also pray it will never hurt for anyone else as much as it hurt for you."
--Jess Mowry, "Esu's Island," I Believe in Water
--James Morrow, Towing Jehovah
I remember a sloe-eyed skinhead who went home with me because he said I was a nice white bloke, not a bleeding queer like most of these others that chatted him up in the pubs of Soho. (What he was doing in the pubs of Soho, I cannot tell you.) He did not seem inclined to revise his opinion even as I sucked his cock and slid two greased fingers into his anus. I noticed later that he had a dotted line tattoed in scarlet round his throat, along with the words CUT HERE. I had only to follow directions. ("You look like a bleeding queer," I'd told his headless corpse, but Mr. White English had nothing to say for himself anymore.)
--Poppy Z. Brite, Exquisite Corpse
I did acid and X last night and I just drank three cups of coffee. I'm a little out of it.
--Poppy Z. Brite, Exquisite Corpse
Here's another question, God: What did Mary say when the angel said to her, "You're going to have a baby and he's going to be the Messiah"? Wasn't she terrified?
--Virginia Euwer Wolff, "Religion: From the Greek Re Legios, to Re-Link," I Believe in Water
"As my father said then, you do not collect pain like souvenirs. Nor do you hoard it away like money, because it can buy you nothing. You hurt for a while and then it is gone. You can't remember pain, except that it hurt, and maybe a lot, and you pray it will never hurt again." Pogo paused to think. "And if your heart has learned from its pain, you also pray it will never hurt for anyone else as much as it hurt for you."
--Jess Mowry, "Esu's Island," I Believe in Water