“All it takes is one small voice to make a difference." Thread”

“Come with me if you want to live. Neva stared at the enormous hand the stranger extended her. Her gaze followed the black leather-clad arm up to the massive shoulders, the strong jaw, and the thick...”

“Shit. Shit. Shit. Hed known he couldnt save her. Hed known he was too far away. Knowing didnt prevent the bare-knuckled punch to his heart, though.”

“Maybe shed remember him as a pain in the ass. Or maybe, he hoped most of all, that shed remember what she told him: You can be a real jerk sometimes, but youre decent. As epitaphs went, it wasnt bad.”

“I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn about on my own parentage. I inoculate against those very biles that brought...”

“How old are you?""Ah that is a good one. I do not know.""Before cars?""Before trains, before guns. Before people stole the curves from the high clouds and the angles from the flying flocks to build...”

“She killed her sons first. Hammering a long fence nail through each of their hearts. Then, taking an ax, she methodically beheaded each one of her brothers-in-law. Going out to the pens, she drove ...”