Hello

There is an empty space next to you in the backseat of the station wagon. Make it the shape of everything you need. Now say hello.

- YOU ARE JEFF BY RICHARD SIKEN

Sexy

But damn if there isn't anything sexier
than a slender boy with a handgun
a fast car, a bottle of pills.

- LITTLE BEAST BY RICHARD SIKEN

Dangerous

Without quite being able to put words into it, Mau felt that being mysterious and a little dangerous was not a bad thing right now.

- NATION BY TERRY PRATCHETT

Salt

They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate. All the warm salt water of the bathing pool and the shouting and splashing and laughing were only just sufficient to bring them together again.

- LORD OF THE FLIES BY WILLIAM GOLDING