Missy Lyons

“There was an electric buzzing sound that was constantly on, acting as background music like a million cicadas in the forest. A constant white noise.”

“Synthetic chocolate sounds wrong.”

“I feel alive when you kiss me.”

“Didn’t I tell you that you would be safe as long as you were with me?”“Yes, but I didn’t believe you when you pushed me off the edge of a building.”

“Lily closed her eyes and screamed at the top of her lungs as she made the scariest fall of her life, plunging to her certain death while clinging to her rescuer who really didn’t rescue her at all.”

“She seemed to enjoy the control and picked out some stretch blue jeans that hugged his ass tighter than a pair of kissing Proulahs. On his world, once mated, the blue crustaceans shared a shell for the rest of their life in an eternal kiss.”

“We don’t have a Giant Aliens “R” Us or we’d be there.”

“You can’t walk around here half naked in Roman warrior costumes or every woman in a fifty-mile radius will be on you like flies on honey.”

“You might be able to kiss like a rock star, but you’ve got to get over this macho trip. You don’t own me.”

“Two is always better than one.”

“Earth girls aren’t easy.”

“Driving in your world seems a bit dangerous.”

“You call this a chariot?”

“Two blue men the size of football players walking through a store wrapped in Roman gladiator armor was bound to attract attention.”

“The supernova sun would be cooler than the fire lighting our desire.”

“It was like he was a caveman grunting, "You woman. Me man. Let’s make babies together.”

“Men were born to protect and love, and our women help us to serve a higher purpose.”

“Barbaric is letting the woman suffer to be alone for the rest of her life.”

“Every woman needs a man.”

“She could end up on the news if she wasn’t careful, with her face plastered on the back of milk jugs. Missing and too stupid to live.”

“That sounded sweet enough to almost be intelligent, but it was chauvinistic as hell.”

“This wasn’t the Dark Ages, and she wasn’t living in a third world nation where women didn’t have any rights and were treated unequally.”

“Help you? I’d lick you, and most girls would want to marry you if you so much as talked to them.”

“She had to remember not to look at him when he smiled like that.”

“Having someone this male next to her made her soul feel exhilarated and convey brazenly suggestive, female, liberal ideas to her inner id.”

“It was the kind of scream that would be in a horror movie right before someone got chopped up into little bitty pieces.”