I say, This whole time, we’ve been wondering where the controls are— But we’re the controls. Yep. And if that’s the case, then we have the ability to go wherever we want. Including home.
I check the time on my drug-dealer flip phone, the one I bought to call Daniela in another Chicago. It won't make calls in this world---I guess minutes aren't transferable across the multiverse.
I am not allowed to think I'm crazy. I am only allowed to solve this problem.
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...
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.
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 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 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 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...
Hassler flips burgers on a grill in the shadow of the remnants of the Seattle Gas Light Company, a collection of rusted cylinders and ironwork that looms in the distance like the ruins of a steampunk...
For once, she knew what she had, the kind of man he was, even in the face of all this. Knew she didn’t need another thing for the rest of her life except to be with him. There was such a peace that ac...
Don’t you think about all you lost though? Isn’t it thrown in your face here? Of course. Every day. But after absolute loss, it still continues. What? You. Consciousness. There is life after hope, you...
Dee Colclough lay watching it all on a flatscreen from a ninth-floor hotel room ten minutes from home, a sheet twisted between her legs, the air-conditioning cool against the film of sweat on her skin...
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.
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.
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.
Crazy hungry. Didn’t even come up for air until she was halfway through and nearly choked when she did. Because that man was sitting across from her, smiling. It was a beautiful smile. Broad and brigh...
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...
But like every important, defining moment in his life, it had all roared by too fast.
Because memory…is everything. Physically speaking, a memory is nothing but a specific combination of neurons firing together—a symphony of neural activity. But in actuality, it’s the filter between us...