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“Fox meat and coyote bones and deer hearts black as secrets.”
Fox meat and coyote bones and deer hearts black as secrets.
Catherynne M Valente, Six-Gun Snow White [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]
Consider also:
- “The dude don’t see himself as a bad man. Way he sees it, he’s an angel for hire. He can gather in lost lambs from the four corners and kiss away their tears, or he can shake a flaming sword. Up to his employers. Saint Michael don’t question why when the Big Dog says git. Ole Mike, he just ties up his war-bag, thumps his golden road, eats his beans out of the tin, and when he sees his mark, he gets to it no fuss. That’s the dude in a nut.”
- “Probably it was always going to turn out like it did. Human nature only got a few tales to tell.”
- “Little fella mews and yelps when he sees her. Not-screaming, not-crying. He’s afraid but he’s hungry. Any girl in a storm.”
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