The rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke.
The rest of the band faded down to almost nothing while my dad did his best Bill Evans impression — except hopefully without the untreated hepatitis.
Seawoll sat in the executive leather operator’s chair behind the desk wearing a dangerously stretched noddy suit that made him look like the Michelin Man’s slightly deflated older brother.
MIU was still stuffed into their overheated office space. Luckily somebody had sprung for an industrial-sized cooling fan with a face the same diameter as a dustbin lid and an unfortunate tendency to...
Lesley said that my exes knew that past a certain point I’d lost interest, and that’s why they always packed me in first. That’s not the way I remember it, but Lesley swore she could have constructed...
I saw a dark void under the platform and had just enough time to think: Fuck me he's a earthbender.
He was transparent, the way holograms in films are transparent.Three dimensional, definitely really there and fucking...transparent.
First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it.
Are there rules?’
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Why would a young man like you be interested in history?
What's the biggest thing you've zapped with a fireball?' I asked.'That would be a tiger,'said Nightingale.'Well don't tell Greenpeace,' I said. 'They're an endagered species.''Not that sort of tiger,'...
We did a joint evaluation of video evidence encompassing all possible access points in conjunction with BTP and CLP, and despite widening the parameters of our assessment to include registered and non...
The white boys knew they had my attention now, but hesitated -- that's the trouble with being a racist in the white heartlands, you don't get a lot of practical experience.
He’s been banned,’ said Lesley. ‘Until he passes the advanced driver’s course.’ ‘Is that because you crashed that ambulance into the river?’ asked Abigail.
Cicero wouldn’t approve of my writing style, but at least I pronounce his name with a hard C.
„— Vrei să fii vrăjitor, a zis.— Nu ştiu.— Mincinosule. Vrei să-i fii ucenic şi să înveţi magia şi să călăreşti pe o mătură.— Nu prea cred că vrăjitorii adevăraţi călăresc mături.
When the government decided that in the light of an increased security threat what London really needed was a smaller police force.
We were aiming for a cross between Kafka and Orwell, which just goes to show how dangerous it can be when your police officers are better read than you are.
There are people who have been touched by, let’s call it for the sake of argument, magic to the point where they’re no longer entirely people even under human rights legislation. Nightingale calls the...