He had a tail. A bear's tail, short and waggily and not at all in keeping with the general size and ferocity of him. Except it was, because bears, after all, were large and ferocious. But they were al...
I updrive a Bronco.How environmentally irresponsible of you.
You think you're special? I promise you, you're not! That goddamned piece of stone is supposed to keep you safe while I try to figure out how to fix all the crap I've fucked up. I need you to have tha...
I told myself that, too. It turned out myself was a skeptical bitch and didn’t believe me.
By the time I could see again, the captain had announced the final descent into Seattle. Couldn't they find a less ominous phrase for it? I don't like flying as it is, even without the implication tha...
I'm not a goddamned faith healer! I don't talk to God! I'm a mechanic and her goddamned engine was broken!--Joanne
Americans and Irish. Separated by a common language.
I rested my forehead on a grease spot I'd left on the window earlier. The airlines, I thought, must have custodians who clean the windows, or there'd be an inches-thick layer of goo on them from peopl...
He rallied a little. Who are you? What do you know about this? Disease control is our job, not yours. Who are you?My name, I said, mostly uner my breath, is Siobhan Grainne MacNamarra Walkingstick, an...
Disaster’s good for the oligarchy. Ha, Billy said to my goggle-eyes. Fair’s fair. You pull out ‘exsanguinate,’ I pull out ‘oligarchy.’ I’m in awe. There’s nothing sexier than a guy with a big vocabula...
You fought demons? Jane said incredulously, And I thought my life was weird.You turn into a giant panther. Your life is weird.
But maybe, just maybe, I was who and where and what I needed to be. Maybe all the prices that had been paid were nothing more than part of high cost of living.
It took Coyote a very long time indeed to show up, or that he looked distracted when he did. How a dog could look distracted, I didn’t know, but there you had it. I’m not, he said for the umpteenth ti...
Except my eyes had fallen right off the vista and landed on a black 1967 Chevy Impala. It didn’t belong up here in the woods any more than Petite might’ve, but it was a beautiful car. Gary parked a fe...
We circled around and came in from the northwest. I lifted my wrist to show him the compass on my watch band, although I hoped that, being the pilot, he knew we’d approached from the northwest. I was...
I had come to regard pride as the defining characteristic of a gentleman, when indeed I should think the word itself, gentleman, should impress upon me what aspect I ought to have settled on as the de...
Much of my life appeared to be a lesson in not judging books by their covers.
Morrison was treading on very thin ice, the words strained, and the only reason he was doing it was for me. I looked at him and wondered what he'd do if I curled myself against his chest and held on....
I’m a lawyer. I meet people every day who are on the surface considerably worse than you are. You, Janx, Alban, you’re really all so…normal. You can do stuff I can’t, but so can Michael Jordan. Dismay...
You seriously think you got some kind of god after you? Gary asked. Marie nodded. Gary turned to me. I vote we drop her off at a loony bin and run for the hills.Are you asking me to run away with you,...