"My face flushed scarlet. I was a stranger in my own skin. I had ever felt this kind of anger in my life. Fort and confusion grew. Its sensation was an overwhelming concoction of hate. The only things ..."
- Jes Dory
"What do you mean 'has to be?' and what are you smiling at?" I stopped contributing to this ridiculous dance. I grabbed the teapot and began to fill it with water in the sink.Suddenly I felt the slight..."
"Turn your pain into purpose."
- Nelou Keramati
"And to think of all colors in the world, blood chose to be red." ~ The Fray Theory"
"I’ve heard the name before: Anubis. An Egyptian name. The name of a god.The god of the dead."
- Kate Rooper
"She comes closer to me. She is beautiful, in the way lightning striking across a storm-swept sky is beautiful: dangerous and distant."
"No one will say it to my face, but it’s so obvious they think I actually murdered Gavin. As if I would actually want to hurt the guy I was in love with. Still, I see it in their eyes, the way they avo..."
- Jen Naumann
"The visions scared me. And I was scared to tell anyone about them. I didn’t want them to think I was a freak. Maybe I was. That scared me, too."
- Michelle K. Pickett
"His hands fell to my hips, and his fingers dug through my rain-drenched clothes."
- Shannon A. Thompson
"The demon is crouched in the corner, between the Cheetos and the onion dip. It’s a small one, only about four feet tall: a low-level creeper. I flick my gaze over the spot like I don’t see it and open..."
- Rachel A. Marks