GCA 2007: Best Writer

Damian Duffy & Deborah Grison, Day 8
I propped myself and my stuff against the doors and windows
All cracks and seams sealed
I couldn’t see her approaching
But I heard
I could not see
Rain so heavy
So sharp
All cracks and seams sealed
Just in case she wanted to hang around for awhile
And she did

Derek McCulloch, Stagger Lee
“…You think this trial is a farce because you know the same thing that I do – that the killing of a black man by a black man is not a crime to the white people. Ordinarily, that is so. But look at where you are. Stop and think. You have been arrested. You have been charged. You are on trial. This is not the ordinary way of things.

“It is imperative that you understand clearly what my job here is. I am not here to keep you out of jail.

“I am here to keep you out of the noose.”

Stuart Moore, Earthlight Vol. 1
“The Earthlight staff has a collective IQ higher than any other grouping in the world. Worlds, I mean. I’m aware of what you all think of me. And you’re right – I don’t have any advanced degrees, and I’m never going to solve the unified field theory. But you need me.

“This colony has become too isolated. From the mother planet – from a political situation that grows more unstable, more dangerous every day. I may not know physics or math, doctor, but I do know politics. And I know that this colony’s continued existence depends on the cooperation of fifty-four nations – most of which don’t really like each other.”

John Ridley, The American Way
“My truth is government-sponsored death. My responsibility is to wake up the fat, ignorant masses who can sing the theme to Mr. Ed but can’t recite the preamble of the Constitution. My task is to force the people to question the authority they are otherwise too stupid to question themselves.

“C’mon, you’re a colored. You’ve gotta dig what I’m saying. How sick are you of being sold the dream of freedom and equality when you know that’s just reserved for the rich and the white?”

Rob Vollmar, Bluesman Book Three
“You are the only living witness to and most likely suspect of a triple murder. It’s my job to lock you up until a jury decides if you’re guilty or innocent. Not stand around and watch while vigilantes disrupt the rule of law.”
“I didn’t kill nobody.”
“I don’t have the luxury of believin’ you one way or th’ other. All I got to rely on is the getting you back to Hope ‘fore some damn fool finally manages to kill you. But you can consider this your best and only chance to convince me that you ain’t the one who stuck that feller in the throat… ‘fore you beat in his head.

“So what was you doing in Hope to begin with?”