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...
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...
I got him in the ankle, Kelly clarified. She added, The gun was a gift from daddy. He says you never know who you'll run into and it's better to have protection. Jeff tried to look respectful at the m...
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...
For the lonely and unloved, there is no greater friend than the night, and the anonymity it offers.
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 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...
Things were always tight because the state only allowed for room and board and meals. I knew this money had come from sacrifice and love. I wiped my tears and whispered to my empty compartment, I love...
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...
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 was still dark. I grabbed the Howzer by the bed and crept quietly from the bedroom. I saw her through the screen door and laid down the gun, my soul in turmoil. As she stood silently crying beneath...
I also suspected that lo romantico might be involved as well. Americans so easily fall in love.
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...
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?
Her face, especially those lovely eyes, filled with amusement. She whispered, Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?