Life’s short. Don’t be mad. It’s a waste of time.
She had come twenty minutes early, but he was already there. He sat in a corner booth with a view of the street and the entrance. Watching her. She forced a smile and walked unsteadily down the aisle...
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
We live day to day completely oblivious to the fact that we’re a part of a much larger and stranger reality than we can possibly imagine.
She has a direct link hardwired from her heart to her mouth. No filter, no self-revision. She says what she feels, without a shred of guile or cunning. She works no angles.
She loved at light-speed. No hesitation. No regrets. No conditions. No reservations.
Knew she didn’t need another thing for the rest of her life except to be with him. There was such a peace that accompanied that knowledge.
One of those twinges of surreal nostalgia that make you acutely aware of all the living you’ve done and how the choices you’ve made have led to this moment of introspection.
When Daniela drinks, three things happen: her native accent begins to bleed through, she becomes belligerently kind, and she tends toward hyperbole.
They say that what you mock Will surely overtake you And you become a monster So the monster will not break you.
Shit. He was going to need a bigger gun. Not a problem.
What she felt toward him wasn’t sadness or nostalgia or even love. It was beyond an emotion she could name. She thought of him now as light and time and energy—a being her earthbound soul could not be...
Deflating. Then empty. His diaphragm relaxed. He counted to three and squeezed the trigger. The British-made AWM bucked hard against his shoulder, the report dampened by the suppressor. Recovering fro...
Bustling. Now Abandon looms listless before him in the gloom of late afternoon, streets empty, snow banked high against the unshoveled plank sidewalks, no tracks as far as he can see. The cabins scatt...
Still he’d only missed his Bronco by a few hundred feet.
Given for me to confirm I had removed the chip. The first at 1400 on Day 5312. The next at 1500 on Day 5313. If I failed to remove the chip by Day 5313, we would have no further interaction.
Theolonious frowned. So is a werewolfskunkdeer a person who changes into something that’s a wolf, skunk, and deer all at once, like it has fur and Bambi eyes and sprays skunk spray, or is it a person...
It’s a strange thing, being the parent of a teenager. One thing to raise a little boy, another entirely when a person on the brink of adulthood looks to you for wisdom. I feel like I have little to gi...
Stu, where you at? Up here in the library. You hurt?
What do you think is happening to you? I’m not entirely sure. But you’re a scientist. You have a theory. I don’t have enough data. What does your gut tell you? I sip the chamomile tea, savoring the hi...
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