The Donut Legion: Excerpt and Cover Reveal!
Joe R. Lansdale
"Just smelling donuts makes me sick, and like I was saying, I have to eat one every day because it’s free."
"Just smelling donuts makes me sick, and like I was saying, I have to eat one every day because it’s free."
"The air tasted like death; the inhuman, guttural cries coming from what sounded like a hundred tortured souls, rising and falling and rising again, made the hair on the back of her neck stand up."
"It was the worst possible timing—or maybe the best."
'“What a warm welcome back to Saint Ambrose, huh?” she says. “Population: messed up.”'
'Jasper said, “Your father is up for parole again in six months.”'
"Sam Capra watched the assassin enter the middle school gym."
"It’s night but the scene is ablaze with gaudy neon and streetlamps. People everywhere. Like a writhing mass of luridly colored insects."
“What about that one?”
"I never wanted to come back home."
"On my first day here fourteen long months ago, she sat on my bunk, squeezed my knee with her horribly long fingernails and told me that she knew what I’d done, and thought it was fantastic."
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