“Lucinda was dead, and the reminder slapped him constantly, freezing ocean waves against his thighs. He could only wade deeper. Deeper, until the truth bubbled into his mouth, salty, miserable. Deeper, until it was pointless to search for shorelines because he knew Lucinda would not be standing on them.”
Tag: YA Fiction
Blackbird by N D Gomes
“Thirty-first of December. The end of 2015. That was the night that five thousand blackbirds dropped dead from the sky just before midnight…”
The Hanging Girl by Eileen Cook
“The joys of living in a small town. The bodies of your mistakes rarely stayed buried. They had a tendency to pop up when you least expected them.”
The Language of Thorns (Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic) by Leigh Bardugo
“In the year that Summer stayed too long, the heat lay upon the prairie with the weight of a corpse. The tall grass withered to ash beneath the unforgiving sun, and animals fell dead in the parched fields. That year, only the flies were happy, and trouble came to the queen of the western valley.”
Trollhunters by Daniel Kraus and Guillermo del Toro
You are food.