It took five minutes for the barkeep to come around. He was an old salt—tall and thin. So grizzled he looked like he’d been here back when Ponce de León first showed up. Letty ordered a vodka martini....
It’s one thing to be lost in a world that’s not your own. Another thing entirely to know you’ve been replaced in yours.
I’m a special agent with the United States Secret Service. You mean those guys who guard the president? That’s only one of our duties.
I’ve seen so many versions of you. With me. Without me. Artist. Teacher. Graphic designer. But it’s all, in the end, just life. We see it macro, like one big story, but when you’re in it, it’s all jus...
Just dozens and dozens of black windows into devastation.
Letty sat on a velvet couch, propped up with pillows. Rich royal-purple drapes everywhere she looked. Ivy walls. Candlelight. She had the best lamb she’d ever tasted. Must’ve been fed gold flakes and...
Look, I say, I’ve tried to explain to you how the box works, but forget all that for a minute. Here’s the thing. The box isn’t all that different from life. If you go in with fear, fear is what you’ll...
May a pack of blessings light upon thy back.’ Ah, Shakespeare. Lovely.
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Paul Chambers, Bill Evans, and Jimmy Cobb playing All Blues, a moody, blues form piece in 6/8, off the 1959 album Kind of Blue.
My life is over, he said. But it’s still yours. I don’t want it.
My reality—more and more every day—is this world. Where I have nothing. Where I’m a homeless, filthy creature whose existence evokes only compassion, pity, and disgust. Nearby, another homeless man is...
Pensé que apreciaba cada momento, pero sentado aquí en el frío, sé que di todo por sentado. ¿Y cómo podría no haberlo hecho? Hasta que todo se cae, no tenemos idea de lo que realmente tenemos, de lo p...
Quinn froze when he saw Emmett, brought his hand to his mouth, whispered, Oh God. June, is it? I’m so sorry. Is there anything— No, there isn’t. I just need to be alone with him. Abigail touched her a...
Shanna’s words hung in the air like a crooked painting.
She cut into a waffle and said, Gotta be honest—I’m not over the moon about the word ‘heist.’ No? It’s one of my favorites.
She said, Jerrod’s dead, and Scott’s hurt bad. Wood creaked in a structure across the street. Listen, Lawrence said, there’s a house up that slope, with a bay window in front. I want you to go there,...
She stopped at the foot of the trio of beach chairs and smiled down at Richter and his men. Richter was in the middle. The one on the left was a hairy beast of a man with the fat-over-muscle build of...
She studied the document. Looks like a bunch of legalese. Pretty much. You wanna give me the CliffsNotes since I didn’t go to law school?
She takes another step back, reaches into her gray woolen cloak. The single-action army revolver is a heavy sidearm, and it sags comically in the child’s hand, so she holds it like a rifle. Brady is t...
She took him by the hand and led him over.
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