“ Are you a house-wife, Mrs Silvers?' he asked. 'What would you recommend for getting burger relish out of a white shirt?'The seething woman cranked the venom-level of her gaze up to eleven, and Raven s… A. Ashley Straker
“ But as Max tugged him out the door a different feeling stole over him, something strange, behind the regret, deeper than the mourning. It wasn't until much later that he was able to identify it.Excitm… A. Ashley Straker
“ On the TV he found cartoons and movies, music videos and game shows, repeat broadcasts and reruns, but there was nothing current, and no news. Many channels were just blank, or displayed brightly colo… A. Ashley Straker
“ He felt like a baked bean in a can, soaring through the air on a downward turn of a parabolic arc... A. Ashley Straker
“ Every scrape, site, range and page; every game, download, hack, song, movie and virrie on the Web. Everything on your phone. Everything on your 'puta. Even the content directories of your cupboards. A… A. Ashley Straker
“ Raven briefly pondered the phrase, "staring down the barrel of a gun". It wasn't really that accurate, he decided. After all, it was too dark to see any features down a barrel, only a black circle at… A. Ashley Straker
“ Well, whatever happened here today...' he said, turning back to Popescu and donning his own sunglasses so he could discreetly cast his gaze over her figure,'...it was only the beginning. A. Ashley Straker
“ Partnership means she is of equal rank to you, Raven', Obiakor continued...'Don't play games with her. A. Ashley Straker
“ ...a fissure appeared. Splinters of plastic broke away around it, and the fissure widened, radiating further fractures.When the first leg broke out, Simon tried to shriek. A. Ashley Straker
“ But the things in the batteries couldn't be spiders. It just wasn't possible. There had to be another explanation. But of what kind? A. Ashley Straker
“ The unfortunate 8075 hadn't survived his assault, splintering apart, fragments of its casing skittering across the bench. The battery within had split along its plane, revealing something as out-of-pl… A. Ashley Straker
“ Something was wrong with the devices themselves. Digging deep into the internal structure of the circuit boards with powerful microscopes, Simon's team had discovered broken and incorrect connections,… A. Ashley Straker
“ For a moment, Simon's sympathetic nervous system forgot he was arachnophobic. The sight of those spindly legs rising, like an ink drawing popping out of paper into three-dimensional space, should have… A. Ashley Straker
“ She stared at Raven in a long second of shocked silence, before sagging to the floor. A. Ashley Straker
“ You state here that you believe your daughter, Amy, is no longer with you; that the girl living in your house - who looks and sounds exactly like Amy - is not in fact your daughter. Is this correct? I… A. Ashley Straker
“ The Gobi wasn't completely devoid of life; its ecosystem was unexpectedly extensive and varied given the extremes to which it subjected its denizens, but some of those forms of life weren't the kind t… A. Ashley Straker
“ Anna, like most English speakers, thought GASP was a silly name for the project. But the name got the point across. If there were modern wonders of the world, GASP - and Kali - stood as far above them… A. Ashley Straker
“ Did you consider anything like the Infected?' Simon had asked.'Not quite. But some of our other contingency plans might help us out with this particular mission. A. Ashley Straker
