- I am about to ploughed, she told herself. Ploughed and furrowed. -Diane Awerbuck, 'Leatherman'

- When I last saw the light. A cold morning, the sun just a hint on the horizon when we slipped down the ropes into the shafts? The last time I saw the sun? - Toby Bennett, 'Caverns Measure Less to Man'

- I love coffins. - Pwaangulongii Benrawangya, 'I am Sitting here Looking at a Graveyard'

- And this is why hope should never be allowed to breathe. - Tiah Beautement, 'Hands'

- Marion looked in the mirror, and screamed. It was completely blank. She was not there, and neither, for that matter, was anything else. - Gail Dendy, 'Marion's Mirror'

- I dreamt that my father's bruka took me to the stars, where I became a princess in a world whose sky was red like blood. - Dilman Dila, 'How My Father Became a God'

- I felt like a hypocrite, as if I was turning my back on my religion of science and hospitals. - Kerstin Hall, 'In the Water'

- It made complete sense to Elsie that English was the language of witchcraft. Of evil. What else would it be? - Cat Hellisen, 'Mouse Teeth'

- Were you in Heaven then, Antoinette? What was it like? - Mishka Hoosen, 'Spirits of the Dead Keep Watch'

- I was alive. I was dead. That's as much as I knew. - Nick Mulgrew, 'Stations'

- All is new to the babe, for the mantle of flesh has banished her memory beyond the furthest recess of the most distant stars. - Mary Okon Ononokpono, 'Editöngö'

- It used to be just people who could play the piano with their feet. - Chinelo Onwualu, 'CJ'

- I never really understood how a vulture could have an affair with a human being. - Jekwu Ozoemene, 'There is something that Ogbu-Ojah didn't tell us'

- He is waiting for you, not just anywhere. He is seated on your chair on the veranda. You have named him Jonny, despite your intention to shoot him. - Sylvia Schlettwein, 'Ape Shit'

- Day after day and night following night he would live the same lives in both worlds. Doing the same things again and again, and repeating himself over and over. He saw new places before he’d ever been there. He suffered double the indignities and lived twice the disgrace and public shaming. – Jason Mykl Snyman, 'What if You Slept?'

- It is usually a very frightening experience for patients to relive memories inside this space. – Phillip Steyn, 'Esomnesia'

- I can live only where you are in the dark. – Brendan Ward, 'The Lacuna'

- God, it’s like the one thing I really I miss, you know. The sky. - Sarah Jane Woodward, 'The Carthagion'

- It is not unusual for the morgue to lose a body. - Sese Yane, 'The Corpse'