There is another dangerous component to armed robberies, one that I could never understand. I noticed some time ago that with each robbery I committed there was an intense out of control anger that gr...

The willing are led by fate, the reluctant are dragged.

The prints shop manager, a balding man of about thirty years old, dressed in a plaid work shirt and faded jeans, looked very shocked when he saw the headline text. Sydney Tar Ponds, Is It As Dangerous...

The honky-tonk bartender, who doubled as bouncer, waiter, and cashier, was in no mood to compromise. Mercy was not in him. He came out around the open end of the long counter, waddled threatening acro...

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

She knew she was overextended, but she couldn't help herself. Student, tree lover, citizen of the Earth, she was busier than ever as she raced through Berkeley on her bicycle, and stood on street corn...

She had a lot of nerve signing her note Love. [...] But she sign it that way: Love. What did that mean? Did she mean it, or was it habit? She probably signed all of her letters with Love. Maybe not.

She designed the cakes and I worked out the recipes. The first year we each created a signature cake. Genie's was called the Goddess: really tall, all white on the outside, wrapped in mountains of coc...

Reputation is the panacea for those who lack confidence in their own decisions.

Ooo ahe-e, I aya oa a, she said in yawnspeak, a language - not unlike Hawaiian - known for its paucity of consonants.

Old Campion had once said he believed - he positively believed, with shudders - that Christopher desired to live in the spirit of Christ. That had seemed horrible to the general, but Mark did not see...

OH KYO KUN! Isn't it said that eating pink noodles turns you into a horny pervert?!

North Korea is a famine state. In the fields, you can see people picking up loose grains of rice and kernels of corn, gleaning every scrap. They look pinched and exhausted. In the few, dingy restauran...

Madem kimileri iyi insan olmayı seçiyor, madem bundan haz alıyorlar, onlara hayatta karışmam, kimse de bana karışmasın. Ama bana karışıyorlardı. Üstelik kötülük bireye özgüdür, sizlere, bana ve tek ta...

I’m saying there is evil in the world, Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, and doubt is the weapon that guards against it.Yardem took the box from the old actor's hands and lifted it to the t...

It was sometimes feebly argued, as the political and military war against this enemy ran into difficulties, that it was 'a war without end.' I never saw the point of this plaintive objection. The war...

Is it like this everywhere you go? Gary asked. Pretty much. Savannah shrugged calmly. I don’t really mind. Peter always— She broke off abruptly and brought the steaming cup to her mouth. Gregori could...

Inspector Milne's suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above quietly circumventing the law.

I'm not ill like that, she groaned. He sat on her bed, peeling back the blanket. A servant entered, frowning at the mess on the floor, and shouted for help.Then it what way?I,uh... Her face was so hot...

I wouldn't say she looked exactly wistful, but neither did she look as hard to get as a controlling interest in General Motors