Could a werewolf eat a baby whole, in one bite? asked Anthony. I suppose one could, Hollis said. Actually, he knew that one could. Firsthand. Heh heh. So when it pooped out the baby, would the baby be...
Daniela hasn’t worn perfume in years, but she’s wearing it tonight, and she smells like Daniela without me, like Daniela before our separate scents merged into us.
Day’ll come, when he’s grown and it’s too late, that you’d give a kingdom to go back and spend a single hour with your son as a boy. To hold him. Read a book to him. Throw a ball with a person in whos...
Day’ll come, when he’s grown and it’s too late, that you’d give a kingdom to go back and spend a single hour with your son as a boy.
Each day is a revelation, every moment a gift. The simple act of sitting across the dinner table from his daughter and listening to her talk about her day feels like a pardon. How could he ever have t...
Ethan didn’t miss those things. Didn’t wish that his son was growing up in a world where people stared at screens all day. Where communication had devolved into the tapping of tiny letters and humanit...
Even as those five words cross my mind, I’m not exactly certain what they mean, or how to begin to consider their full weight. So I say it again. I try it on. See how it fits. This is not my world.
Glimpsed something catching sunlight straight above. Froze. Looked down.
He also carried that whiff of unearned arrogance that seems to cling to those who crave authority for the sheer sake of power.
He doesn’t know where he is or, for that matter, who he is. A clear mask is lowered to his mouth. The voice—a woman’s—urges him, Take a long, deep breath, and keep breathing in. The gas he inhales is...
He has made peace with the idea that part of life is facing your failures, and sometimes those failures are people you once loved.
He removes a glove, touches the ham—cold and hard as ore. A pot sits there, the beans frozen in their broth. The cake feels more like pumice than sponge, and two jagged glass stems still stand upright...
He says finally, It’s terrifying when you consider that every thought we have, every choice we could possibly make, branches into a new world.
He thinks how it will be winter soon, and then another year gone by and another one on the chopping block, time flowing faster and faster. Life is nothing how he expected it would be when he was young...
He’d been filling up his Suburban—a feat that required a small business loan at current prices—and had missed Shanna’s call.
He’d never hit a woman in his life, but as Pam moved in for more, he couldn’t shake the thought that it would feel so satisfying to connect his right elbow with this bitch’s jaw.
His experience, there was darkness everywhere human beings gathered.
How can something so powerful in one world not bleed through into this one?
How much of the crew has been awakened? Only eight, counting us. They reach the automatic glass doors that open into the five-million-square-foot cavern that serves as a warehouse for provisions and b...
I am not allowed to think I'm crazy. I am only allowed to solve this problem.
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