Last Night In Brighton
Massoud Hayoun
"I banked my soul on a gay Hollywood romance—a fiction I never found."
"I banked my soul on a gay Hollywood romance—a fiction I never found."
" In the bedroom that Ralph grew up in, there’s a galaxy of glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling"
"If I’d been told in advance about the blood sacrifice, I would have made up an excuse not to attend the bachelorette party."
"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."