Krista Koeller reflects on her family history on Bluesky:
This woman has the same eyebrow shape as me, but nobody alive knows her name.
From A Ballad of Remittent Fever, by Ashoke Mukhopadhyay:
It is possible to derive great pleasure from battling an illness. You may be attempting to draw the man into your kingdom, god of death, but, I, the medical practitioner, am trying to pull him back towards life with all the weapons in my armoury. You may be the king of the realm of the dead, sir, but, I, too am no less a warrior from the kingdom of the living. You may be more powerful than I am, but I am a proud and obstinate soldier who will not concede defeat easily.
From The Mirror of Simple Souls, by Aline Kiner:
For behind the invisible walls she had built around herself, and through which she only granted passage to books that seemed far too taxing for her age and sex, she was in fact growing, and weaving the thread of her own story. She was a unique being, sombre yet luminous, with a will of iron and a celestial mind.
From The Undermining of Twyla and Frank, by Megan Brennan:
Let fire and destruction rain from the skies and plagues decimate the land…but make it pink!
From “The Prophet Who Failed,” by Emily Harnett:
Although church doctrine maintains that she has died many times—her “previous embodiments” include Guinevere, Marie Antoinette, and Martha from the Bible—Elizabeth passed away most recently in 2009.
