She tapped her iPhone and showed me the screen. An aerial photograph looked down over a sprawling, dusty desert ranch. I half expected to see a tumbleweed rolling down the main thoroughfare, or maybe...
Standing next to Caitlin was like walking into a lioness’ den wearing a suit made of T-bone steaks. No amount of infatuation could make me forget what she was, or drown out the memory of Artie Kaufman...
Sunrise came like a stampede of bulls, kicking me out of bed and into the shower as my mind lurched into high gear.
There a point behind that history lesson? I asked. Only to establish a certain level of, shall we call it, prior claim? I’m not positive, I said, but I think after sixty or seventy years it becomes mo...
This was the real blues, down-home raw and ragged, drenched with sweat and sex and the bloodied edge of a switchblade.
We believe in keeping up with the times, she said. It’s not all backward Latin and slaughtered goats.
Whatever you did, man, you laid her to rest. I didn’t lay Stacy’s soul to rest. I sent her to hell. It wasn’t my finest hour.
Lights dangled from the warehouse scaffolding, their power lines running to a portable generator that chugged and coughed like a heavy smoker running a marathon.
She spat a single word. A long, guttural, twisting word that evoked frozen Germanic winters. The trigger to the spell she’d been weaving for days. The toxic miasma above our heads exploded with a peal...
A couple strolled by behind my chair. For a moment, they got between us and the closest light, casting Freddie in a patch of shadow. As the light peeled away, so did the facade. A desiccated corpse re...
A fresh bottle of Jack waited on the end table, but for the first time in weeks I didn’t feel the need to pour a nightcap. The music was better.
And for the record, yes, a Taurus Judge probably WILL blow a demon’s face off at close range.
Apocalypso dancing! Sunday Sunday Sunday! You’ll want to cut your wrists with the whole knife, but you’ll only need the edge!
Buy up the land it’s on and the twenty acres around it in every direction. Post a permanent guard. Satellite scans show a small village within that radius. Shame, the Smile said. The drug cartels are...
Cait, I called over, how much is this going to cost? Sudden silence. Every eye in the room fell upon me, cold as winter ice. Right, I said, holding up a hand. I’m just gonna maybe shut up now.
Cameron furrowed his brow at me, like he didn’t know what I was talking about. We put Mr. Faust through the usual test, Fleiss said pointedly, as if she was feeding a bad actor his lines. Oh, the test...
Can he? Margaux said. I shrugged. He wouldn’t be the first racket boss to get taken down in Vegas, not by a long shot, but he’s got access to the kind of resources no human gangster could dream of. Bu...
Do I look Lithuanian to you?
From the looks on his follower’s faces, I’d done a decent enough job of creeping them out. Two of them looked nervously at the duffel, as if they’d just found out I’d brought a piñata stuffed with ant...
Have you ever considered, for even a moment, the list of things I’m not allowed to do because some bitter old men say so? I can’t lead a mass, can’t earn the greens of a priest, let alone claim my bir...
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