Fuck me,' I said to Toby. 'We're living in Isengard.
On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.
Who knows why the fuck anything happens?
Ethically challenged magical practitioners, I said.
Speak, friend, and enter,
I didn't think that Herefordshire Social Services would be best pleased about me dumping a poorly socialised pre-teen with mind control powers on them.
This is a speech we've all heard before. From the con artists who aren't like the burglars, who aren't like the armed robbers, who only ever broke a bone if the victim had it coming and the murderers...
My milkshake brings all the gods to the yard.
Not being invited in is one of the boxes on the suspicious behavior bingo form that every copper carries around in their head along with stupidly overpowerful dog and being too quick to supply an alib...
The voice belonged to a plump, round-faced woman of the sort that develops a good personality because the alternative is suicide. I
He was sure that police box hadn’t been there before.
We stopped and listened. Just on the cusp of hearing I detected a rhythmic pounding, more a vibration in the concrete than a sound.'Drums,' I said and then because I couldn't resist it. 'Drums in the...
The British have always been madly overambitious, and from one angle it can seem like bravery, but from another it looks suspiciously like a lack of foresight.
I thought.
„Să păstrez pacea Reginei. Să aduc ordine în haos.
He was a Parisian,’ he said. ‘You can never be sure what Parisians believe in – beyond Paris of course.
Can you sacrifice people?' I asked. 'Take their magic that way?''Yes,' he said. 'But there's a catch.''What's the catch?''You get hunted down even unto the ends of the Earth and summarily executed.
As I stepped onto the gloomy landing a word formed in my mind: two syllables, starts with a V and rhymes with dire. I froze in place. Nightingale said that everything was true, after a fashion, and th...
The kitchen was the kind of brushed steel monstrosity that looks more like it's designed to weaponise viruses than cook dinner.
I had found the upper limit of my courage. Fortunately for me, there is no known lower limit to human stupidity.