Trudie Duboise

“I’m fucking asking you!” The man stood his ground.
From the corner of his eye Adam could see the other man getting up from his chair. It was time to go. Adam head-butted the first man who was blocking his way, and then kneed him in the groin for good measure. As the man doubled up, Adam pushed past him.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“Bend with me.”
― Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand

“He’s a bad man, Mama, came the thought, somehow manifesting itself into the voice of my little Maddie.  ”
― Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

“Falconers,” she continued, sternly. “Pull yourselves together. People are dying. The police don’t have the family history to solve murders forty years apart.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds