Kayce Cragan

“Mr. Hooks?”
“Mr. Ludefance? Pleasure to meet you and thank you for coming in.”
As he extended his hand to me, I noticed the girl at the desk staring at my face. Hooks looked back at her staring and must have given her a look of some kind.
“Mr. Ludefance, this is my secretary, Cholia.”
She stood up and continued to stare at my scar. Black hair, cute face, maybe five-foot-four at the most, and a little on the plump side with rosy cheeks. Young. Very young. Looked like a teenager to me. Or was I just getting ‘older?”
― Behcet Kaya, Appellate Judge

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“No, I’m in the supplementary reserve,” Homer pointed out. “As in supplementary to the actual reserve. As in, never call me. Ever.”
― D Rebbitt, Revelation: The Globur Incursion Book 10

“She knew how people slipped through cracks—not all at once, but in layers.”
― D.L. Maddox, THE DOG WALKER: THE PREQUEL

“The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew tea for the cooks. Windows are open to counter the heat of the ovens. Outside, the sky is as black as my soul.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master