Fate had somehow conspired against me, giving me a life of its choosing rather than my own. No one would really miss me if I were gone. I would slowly fade into the memories of a few, then melt away i...
Despite the devastation and death around us, and the uncertain future which lie ahead, I could not remember ever being as happy as the moment I officially became Sarah’s Dad.
California during the 1940s had Hollywood and the bright lights of Los Angeles, but on the other coast was Florida, land of sunshine and glamour, Miami and Miami Beach. If you weren't already near Cal...
Arizona and Tucson, to Wyn’s way of thinking, sort of embodied the changing nature of the country in recent years as it had grown. Traders and explorers such as Kit Carson, Pauline Weaver and Bill Wil...
And that’s why I fell in love with you so quickly. Your heart was the one I’d always been looking for. It’s almost instinctive, loving you. As though I was born to.
And lastly were the single women. They would run the gamut from somewhat pretty to somewhat plain, dreadful, incurable diseases that had relegated them to lives of obscurity and boredom. They were har...
Wyn saw the freshly laid railroad tracks, and spotted the spires of San Felipe with its white crosses pointing toward God’s home, and knew he’d finally reached Albuquerque. He glanced behind him at th...
Where’s Steve Wilson and Lorelei when you really need them? said Beverly with a sigh. I know! replied Nancy. The two girls smiled at each other, easing the tension.
Unit One, I read you. What's your location, Unit Two? We only had two units, so numbering them was unnecessary, but it sounded more official. I'd given Janie the Mustang because she liked it and becau...
Puttin’ two slugs in some gumshoe in an alley behind the Whitman’s Chocolates place, now that ain’t their style at all. Murder, My Sweet’s what me and Louisa’s been callin’ it. You know, like that mov...
Neither Amy nor her father seemed to think it the least bit worrisome that they knew nothing about me, really. They had both made their assessments on the spot and decided in my favor. It was hearteni...
It seemed her radar for picking the good ones was defective from the factory. It wasn’t the kind of thing you could just return and swap for another one, either. Defective or not, she was stuck with i...
In his opinion they were hypocrites who conveniently forgot their peaceful town was only peaceful because someone with a gun had tamed it, and someone with a gun kept it that way.
I couldn’t think of any reason except the truth, which would only make him yell, or worse, laugh at me. It was humiliating, because he was right. It was silly, after all, losing myself in some pulp ro...
I also suspected that lo romantico might be involved as well. Americans so easily fall in love.
Her face, especially those lovely eyes, filled with amusement. She whispered, Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
But that was over there, in Greece. This was Mykonos, a seaside sanctuary so timeless that I half expected to glimpse Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings walking along the dock as we disembarked from...
Buford woke up in a cold sweat because someone was screaming. The voice was his own, the dream always the same. The young Navajo girl, born prematurely to an alcoholic mother, trying to kill him with...
As such things have a tendency to do it got out of hand in the worst way, resulting in the rather gruesome death of Maggie Potter — no relation to Harry.
A light and intermittent snowfall kept my world white over the next several days. The air was fresh and pure, nature's white medicine removing all that was wrong in the world. I was glad I had taken...