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"They’re powerful; dark; grim. They’re maybe the single most 'literary' fantasy of the entire decade, and I’m fully prepared to defend Corby as among the half-dozen best prose stylists in late twentieth-century fantasy."

to ride the suicide machine
obscenely born, obscenely hawked
no wizard prior could concoct;
unlocked, Pandora's octave white.

recitals of our plight be moot,
permutes heists of loot galore
which we may garner nevermore
nor ford cold river's portal back.

"I remember my neighbor Rahaf — a child calling her father’s name from under the rubble, her voice growing weaker. Her father couldn’t reach her. He could only listen until her calls stopped."

"Vampire getting ready for a party by mixing all the blood types in a punch bowl"
—@prufrockluvsong.bsky.social

America now has second-generation school shooting survivors.