"A roach clung to the paper label of one of the tins. She flicked it off. No one wanted to kill the creatures directly by squashing them. The crack and release of oyster-sized innards was unpleasant. A fear of multiplication through death in insects seemed to stop them, too, a kind of medieval theory of spontaneous generation. The roach Elspeth had flicked away walked off with sectioned purposefulness." —Debatable Land (--at first i read "sanctioned")
"Most people think opposition movements rise or fall based on charisma, ideology, or momentum."
of a fire on the moon
—mention omelas shove—
festive amid famine
ramifies each rid oeuvre
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