4 of 5 stars to Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia goodreads.com/review/show/38…

A book I'll probably never finish writing, but it's nice to pretend I will. #CanvaDesignChallenge

I read The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia goodreads.com/review/show/46…

Dawn and dusk grew forceful. Day arrived as hot rain, with sunlight followed by thunder. Night came as dark snow, leaving stars in our hair.

It wasn't the monster under her bed that upset her. Nor the one in her closet. It was their courtship. The growling of poetry in the dark.

Chlorophyll is inefficient, so alien plants used darker pigments. Alien tourists loved our green forests. The environment finally had value.

My tousled mane is magical. No matter how long it's been since my last hair cut, it never grows longer than the perfect eye-shading length.

Did I kidnap you? Of course not! I prefer to call it "an opportunity for us to fall in love without interruptions." Just don't try to leave.

"I'm not following you into robotics," he said. "You will," his dad said, "It's in your blood." He disagreed until the nanites activated.

She’d been raised by wolves. As an adult she left them. She still went back, sometimes, for a respite from the savagery of humanity.

Gaze too deep into my topaz/emerald/granite eyes, and you'll forgot how to breath or your heart may stop beating. You'll find this romantic.

My best guy friends are all vaguely diverse. However, all our plots revolve around catering to a white teen girl who despises other women.

Squirrels gathered and buried pocket watches. Songbirds migrated silently into caves. They knew something we didn't of the coming season.

As he drowned, a mermaid came to rescue him. He screamed. He'd expected a top-half/bottom-half situation. It was more of a vertical split.

Seaside homes are no more tragic than others, but often have more ghosts. They come with the tide, mistaking houses for their sunken ships.

If you can correct yourself when you misgender a stranger’s dog, you can learn to gender trans people correctly

"They say the waiting is the hardest part," he said. "Who does?" "People with something worth waiting for, I suppose." "Sounds nice."

Millennials aren't creating new gender identities they're only giving language to ones that have always existed under the burden of shame.

I love living in a world where launching 50 missiles at a country is a humanitarian effort but accepting their refugees is too dangerous

For every RT this gets, I'll pet Biscuit and tell him he's a good boy 🐶