Goals

Once you get past
a certain threshold,
everyone's problems
are the same:

fortifying your island
and hiding the heat
signature from your
fusion reactor.

— Austin Grossman, "Soon I Will Be Invincible"

Masquerade

Wearing a cape
doesn't do much
for your social life.

— Austin Grossman, "Soon I Will Be Invincible"

Mist

The mist
hung like
blindness
around
the house.

— Neil Gaiman, "Coraline"

Bradbury

Perhaps he had experienced only
the Ray Bradbury kind of childhood
so many smalltown kids had,
or at least remembered having;
the kind where the real world
and that of dreams
sometimes overlapped,
creating a kind of magic.

— Stephen King, "Hearts in Atlantis"