I was listening to a replay of Art Bell hosting Dreamland, back when he was still doing the show. I let talk of UFOs and crop circles distract me from my own perplexing mystery. I believed again, but...
Her faith in him to protect her warmed his heart on one hand, and worried him on the other; how could he protect any of them from what he could not see, much less explain?
He leaned in and pretended to examine every counter of my face, as though he were Lauren Bacall and I was Humphrey Bogart from Dark Passage. Then he pulled back and did a comical double-take like Cary...
As Jones was leaving, he turned back and commented, Maybe now you won’t write the cops so dumb on your next show. He winked as he shut the door, having the last word after saving our skins.
Apache trick, nodded Fox. Aw hell! Jace remarked, Accordin' to you, everything smart anybody does they learned from fightin' Apaches! We greatest fighters and trackers.
A tall, leggy French girl on her way to work was looking at her phone and almost walked into me as I crossed the street. I dodged her just in time and she glanced back to give me a dirty look. How dar...
A man’s nothing in this cockeyed world but his word, especially a guy like me, with no job and no prospects. I was a hitchhiker who’d thumbed his last ride. But I had to keep my word to Kathy, even if...
A doll! I smiled. Maybe someone else would have thought him crude, but I saw beneath his rough exterior. He was sweet. And he’d called me a doll, like in the pulp magazines.
You see, here’s my problem. You got a look. I saw that look on a lot of guys during the war. A lot of ‘em had trouble after they came back. But they weren’t killers, not this kind anyway. So, I’ll lis...
Wyn could never be afraid of death, because he had already died, that night, so long ago.
The smell of Jasmine was in the sea air. Any other day I would have adhered to the Victory Speed but I couldn't wait to reach the village. I smiled to myself, thinking what a stir it would cause when...
She sounds wonderful, and just what you need, someone to rescue and adore. And she needed someone who would truly believe she's even more wonderful now than she was before. People who poo-poo sudden l...
Neither complained, because they liked going on dates — when they were allowed — and it was especially fun when they could double date. Dances and the malt shop, and occasional jaunts to see a Tyrone...
Many men along the trail would discover that a man unafraid of death is the most dangerous man alive. Wyn could never be afraid of death, because he had already died, that night, so long ago.
It was the question I kept coming back to, the one I couldn't answer. I had begun to believe again in the miracles about which I wrote, but now that faith had been shaken. Was God asking if I still be...
It heightened the tension while we listened to Suspense. Nearly all the girls leaned forward, wide-eyed in dread at the heroine’s predicament. She was trapped on a lonely country road, and a killer wa...
I wondered as I watched people leaning out to snap digital photographs if the ability to capture the technical reality of a place took away from the feeling of it, and muted the memory forever. A pict...
How do I begin to tell you about Dana and all that she meant to my life? A writer can describe spring in technical terms; the scent of cherry blossoms awakening from their long winter's sleep; the fir...
Halfway back to the Keys on Seven Mile Bridge, as day lost its eternal struggle against night, someone in Miami called in to the radio station I was listening to, and requested Gloria Estefan’s Si Voy...
For the lonely and unloved, there is no greater friend than the night, and the anonymity it offers.