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October 18, 2005
some awful good writing
I think I may have to start reading more Sci-Fi:
`Its voice was soft, gentle -- but repugnant. Like the breath of a diseased infant. It was a sound with halitosis.' -- John Shirley, In Darkness Waiting
`He shuddered, awash in adrenaline, his sphincter pulling unpleasantly tight as he recognized his own youthful scrawl on the outside tab. ... and he felt an ache, a curse of time racing across the ridge of his knuckles.' -- Derek Van Arman, Just Killing Time
`... Caymann released a horrible scream into the night air, a painful, deafening and terrifying roar that sounded like a lion whose heart was impaled.' -- Derek Van Arman, ibid
`She knew how to embroider and milk a cow.' -- Connie Willis, Doomsday Book
`A few hours had passed since they had been pulled away from the moon. A few hours and millions of miles. The moon was no longer visible, not even as a star. The whole thing was so crazy, weird and far-out. It was as though they were floating in a giant vacuum.' -- Sara Cavanaugh, A Woman in Space
`Now Danelle's big blue eyes looked thoughtfully inward.' -- Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven
`His eyes could have cut through rock mountains.' -- Sam Merwin Jr, The Time Shifters
`Though she was many years the younger, she seemed by her manner to be the older of the pair -- that is, if age could be measured by suspicion.' -- Duncan McGeary, Snowcastles
`Palmer's screams became fainter as the slugs ate their way into him, a number burrowing up through his torn genitals, using his anus as a means of access in their search for the softer, more succulent parts of his body.' -- Shaun Hutson, Slugs
`It was an Everest of understatement.' -- Robert Charles Wilson, The Harvest
`The wagon lurched forward like an armadillo trying to mate with a very fast duck.' -- James P Silke, Frank Frazetta's Death Dealer, Vol II Lords of Destruction
`Now that important Achilles heel was closed.' -- Geoffrey Jenkins, Firepoint
`His lips formed the words, but it was his heart which spoke them.' -- Bernard King, Starkadder
`Their tongues twisted around each other, strong as pythons. She had never been afraid of snakes.' -- Marge Piercy, Body of Glass
(Compiled by Thog.)
Posted by onion slayer at October 18, 2005 12:54 PM
Comments
you can guess which two are my favorites:
the anus slugs and the mating armadillo!
Posted by: illyrianrhapsody at October 18, 2005 02:23 PM