Good evening, Eisenberg Correctional. This is your new warden speaking. You may have noticed that every single door in the prison has just opened. This is in keeping with our new ‘leave whenever you w...
Good. I need to arm up. All I’ve got is a gun with four bullets, and it’s a really embarrassing gun.
The Nook was in a perpetual state of slightly organized chaos, like it had been hit by a tornado followed by a slightly mad librarian with bold new ideas about the Dewey decimal system.
Your traveling companion is a highly successful narcotics dealer. I held up a finger. Point of order. She was arrested for marijuana possession twice, growing it once, and all three times the charges...
He was convinced that he could steal a human’s life force, drain their soul dry, and use that power to turn himself into the Garden’s conduit and master. It was very trial and error, though. Several h...
I could see the smudge of a pistol in his reflection’s grip, aimed right at my back. I’m pretty good at reading people, I said calmly, not turning around. Figuring out their motivations. What makes th...
C’mon, clock’s ticking. Let’s go pick a fight with an evil billionaire wizard.
We’ll put in at a private airport—the owner goes deaf and blind if you kick him twenty bucks—and head for this place in the French Quarter. Restaurant with a sideline in moving contraband. They know m...
I could see the sorrow in her eyes as she gently brushed his hair aside and kissed his brow. Then she snapped his neck. Ben’s corpse tumbled to the floor. Emma sank to her knees beside him, mute. She...
So sorry, Calypso said, waving his cigarette in a slow circle. I should have asked before I lit up. Does anyone mind if I smoke? Duh, yes, Josh snapped at him. It’s a filthy habit. And it’s making my...
Just one question: how did you break the curse? Easy, I said. C’mon, sentenced to life in prison? That’s how I knew something was fishy. You would have moved heaven and earth to get me out of here. Be...
Hey, Nadine? I said. She glanced my way. I normally have strong objections to hitting a woman, I said, but if you talk to my girlfriend like that again, I could see myself getting over it real fast.
I looked at Harmony. Harmony looked at Gary. She knew he’d overreached and blown it. So did Lars. Only Gary himself was too dumb to figure it out. I cleared my throat.
I felt like the sheriff in an old Western, gearing up for a showdown at high noon, only to find out the black-hat outlaw accidentally fell off his horse and died from a concussion on his way to the gu...
And, uh, could I borrow somebody’s car? Mine’s impounded and I can’t reclaim it because I’m kinda legally dead right now.
Oh, hey, I said. Looks like the whole Vegas Metro SWAT division is here. Plus the FBI, Homeland Security, and probably the IRS for good measure.
You can’t take a life—good or bad, whether they’ve got it coming or not—you can’t take a life without burning out a little of the light in your heart. And you’ve only got so much light.
After a moment, she nodded to herself. Oh, you little scamp, she murmured. What is it? She lowered her glasses, just enough to show me the burning molten-copper swirls of her eyes. Her real eyes. He’s...
I looked around, my heart pounding faster, trying to spot it before it could get the jump on me. The creature was near, but the noise sounded like it was coming from everywhere at once. No, I realized...
A witch, a sorcerer, and a fucking demon from hell say I’m not trustworthy. You’re a psychopath, I said. She shrugged. I’ve been told that means that I know the difference between right and wrong, I j...
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