Dessert was an over baked chocolate chip cookies the size of a hockey puck and just about as tasty.
So for a while, they sat peacefully in the swamp, listening to Mrs. Starch hum while the little panther slurped happily and the emerald leaves overhead shimmered and shook in the sunlight.
That's the thing about being a Labrador retriever - you were born for fun. Seldom was your loopy, freewheeling mind cluttered by contemplation, and never at all by somber worry; every day was a romp....
GRASS, LIKE NEARLY EVERYTHING else in China, is subject to political interpretation. Historically, the Chinese have taken a dim view of grass. In Peking’s parks, the dirt is swept daily, since cleanli...
One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
From the pocket of her windbreaker he extracted what he falsely believed to be a portable marine radio, which along with two granola bars he'd pilfered from Honey's belongings after she was snatched b...
Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
Just because something was legal didn't automatically make it right.
My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.
In his own mind, it was never a matter of courage. But courage it was.
Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence.
He paused and manufactured a chuckle.
Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such pr...
Malley told the shrink that she’d run away because Justin
As far as I'm concerned, the gator that ate T.C. deserves a medal from Crime Stoppers.
I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.
I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
Wouldn't it be a treat, Chaz thought, to have just one goddamn day when nobody fucked with my head?
Only Indian tribes are allowed to run casino operations in Florida, so Dusty somehow persuaded a couple of rich Miccosukees from Miami to buy the marina and make it part of their reservation. Dad said...