Mick Stranahan’s sister was married to a lawyer named Kipper Garth, inept in all aspects of the profession except self-promotion.
Malley said, 'What's your problem, T.C.? If these two are dumb enough to swim through a lightning storm, let 'em go.''No, no, I gotta think.'The governor said thinking was highly overrated, which made...
In other words, we saved an animal from extinction just so we could start killing it again. How messed up is that?
In appearance though, Darrell seemed anything but a criminal. Erin was still naive enough to believe that all crooks had bad teeth, greasy hair and jailhouse tattoos. She assumed that cleancut, good-l...
Her most distinct memories of their first twelve months of marriage were scenes of reliably torrid sex, which turned out to be Chaz’s singular shining talent. It was also his obsession. During their m...
Guess what I got in the trunk? An Igloo cooler. And guess what's in the cooler? A human head.'Shad violently expelled the cigar out the window. He wiped his mouth on the sleeve of his camo jacket.'No...
Eventually Garcia asked what it was like to work in a nude dance club. Shad puffed out a heavy grunt. 'After a while, you don't notice.''Come on.''Really. I'm to the point where I get excited when the...
Despite the meatiness of his fingers, Dominick showed himself to be a nimble texter.
Consequently the Harney High athletic department decided to focus on another sport, basketball. The first order of business was to build a gymnasium with a basketball court and some portable bleachers...
Chaz had proudly informed her that he was a biologist, and that he was attending a convention of distinguished scientists working to save the Everglades. He’d further confided that he was supposed to...
Charles Regis Perrone was a biologist by default. Medical school had been his first goal--specifically, a leisurely career in radiology. The promise of wealth had attracted him to health care, but as...
Burnout is common because of the long hours, the crummy pay and the depressing nature of so much of what we write. As the saying goes, they never send us to the airport when the plane lands safely.
As for Dr. Remond Courtney, his golf swing was so unusual that from a distance he appeared to be beating a snake to death. It was a very violent golf swing for a psychiatrist. He managed an eight on t...
Right now there's a pair of bad cops on their way out here to shoot me.You don't know that.Yeah, you're right, Stranahan said. They're probably just collecting Toys for Tots. Now go.
You won't change the whole world, but you'll change somebody's world - and for the better. And, just as inevitably, some of you won't. You'll park your principles in the long-term lot and spend your f...
You from the IRS? The man's voice was deep and wet, like mud slipping down a drain.
Watching the cab speed off, Wahoo’s father looked forlorn. It’s like she’s leaving us twice, he remarked. What are you talking about, Pop? I’m seein’ double, remember? There she goes—and there she goe...
The vista from atop the poinciana was timeless and serene—a long string of egrets crossing the distant ’glades; a squadron of white pelicans circling a nearby bay; a pair of ospreys hovering kitelike...
The victim’s hand was contracted into a fist except for the middle digit, which was rigidly extended.
The man's a born straggler, Honey thought, another lucky exception to the rules of natural selection. A million years ago he would've been an easy snack for a saber-toothed tiger.