The first thing that the boy called Smoke told Nick Waters was: Your biology book’s in my locker. The combination is 5-3-5. And the second thing he said was: I didn’t do that fire, man. I’m innocent.
Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. 'It's important to stand up for what's right,' Mr. Eberhardt had said, 'but sometimes there's a fine line between courage and stupi...
Nietzsche?
Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head.
It was a buoyant and eager postgraduate who arrived at the Rosenstiel campus on Virginia Key, for he had grandly envisioned himself sailing the lazy tropics on a schooner, tracking pods of playful bot...
I didn’t tell my parents what happened because they would’ve freaked and gone straight to Dusty Muleman, or maybe even the police, which was not how I wanted to handle it.
Honey's outlook on men was sinking to a point of abject revulsion. The day was new, yet she'd already been ridiculed by a soulless twit and kidnapped by a reeking pervert.
He nearly died.''Yeah, because he's a fool,' Mickey said. 'There's no known cure for that.
For political reasons, the government's payout to the sugar industry was patriotically promoted as aid to the struggling family farmer. True, some of the big sugar companies were family owned, but the...
First, I put his ass in jail, García said, then I married his wife.
Damn it, Billy, you did it again. People don't buy townhouses on 'canals'. 'Canal' is a dirty word. A canal is where raw sewage goes. A canal is where ducks fuck and cattle piss. Who'd want to live on...
Stick together like shit on a shoe.
He was bitten in the groin by a Belgian shepherd trainee named Kong, and he required three operations, culminating in a scrotal graft from a Brahma steer.
You’d be surprised, he said. Just the other night, some guy pushed his wife overboard. The snip-snip-snip of the shears ceased.
Wahoo's father had absolutely no use for creeps who beat on small animals, especially kids.
The evening news made her wonder if God was dead; the morning sun made her believe He wasn’t.
Sparky Harper and the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce adored travel writers because travel writers never wrote stories about street crime, water pollution, fish kills, beach erosion, refugees, AIDS...
Nobody with a living brain cell goes into the newspaper business for the money. They're in it because digging up the truth is interesting and consequential work, and for sheer entertainment it beats t...
Miklos said he's applied to be night clerk at a Ramada Inn near the beach. He said the waiting list was two pages long. 'But I got more experience than most.''You're not kidding,' Garcia said. 'Good l...
Malcolm J. Moldowsky did not hesitate to address United States Congressman Dave Dilbeck as 'a card-carrying shithead.