“My eldest sister is regal in her moonlight gown. Her hair is unbound and wild. The black magicks have turned her hands into inky claws. My other two sisters stand on either side like forgotten handmaids in secondhand clothes; their gowns tattered and threadbare.”
"The Tome of the Abyss" by Drea Laj
That Witch Whispers
“One 1899 BC Newspaper reported a retired sailor's description of him. 'Davy had appeared as a giant with a skull for a head, blue flames issuing from his eye sockets, and a sardonic grin disclosing three rows of enormous pointed teeth.'"
"Davy Jones Locker" by Shanon Sinn
Cult of Lost Souls
"I'm obsessed with the great blue heron. The black plumes above their eyes are like shadows falling over their white faces. With their piercing gazes, I wonder if they are spirits, angelic, or perhaps sinister beings, trapped within hollow bones and long feathers."
"The Birds of Kits Beach" by Linda Trinh
Black Cat