There had never been any violence in her life, up until those last few hours—and there seemed no reason beyond simple self-defense for her to feel th… - Adam-Troy Castro

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There had never been any violence in her life, up until those last few hours—and there seemed no reason beyond simple self-defense for her to feel the urgency she felt now.
But she did hunger for it. She wanted to feel something alive turn to something dead. She wanted to stand above it at the moment of its dying, and feel the satisfaction of knowing that she’d been the one who drove it from the world of things that live and breathe and feel into the world of things that merely rot.

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Adam-Troy Castro is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer.

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