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.
And for the record, yes, a Taurus Judge probably WILL blow a demon’s face off at close range.
A woman dressed for tennis and clutching a digital camera did a double take, looking at the suited thugs and then at me as if wondering if she’d seen me on television. No, no, they’re not my bodyguard...
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...
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.
You got a name? Kim, he spat. What’s your first name? Mister.
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.
We believe in keeping up with the times, she said. It’s not all backward Latin and slaughtered goats.
There’s no council of wizened wizards overseeing the world of magic, no hidden academies where bright-eyed and precocious youths learn the secrets of the unknown. What we do have is a collective desir...
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...
Static blared from the blood-streaked screen of her boxy television set, and a fallen lamp cast angled shadows over Sophia’s mutilated corpse. Her murderer wasn’t human. It was a faceless wooden manne...
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...
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...
Rule number four of magic, the one that any responsible teacher drums into their students’ heads until it’s as second nature as breathing, is you do not fuck with demons. Yes, I’m aware of the irony o...
Rare. Rare as pirate gold. Just wave a candle in its general direction.
Problem there, I said, is Lauren’s a strategist. A damn good one. If she’s not thinking about the long term… Harmony finished my thought. Then there isn’t going to be a long term.
Oh, she said, putting her hand to her mouth in mock surprise. Do you mean you weren’t just feeling slightly airsick, and a bottle of ginger ale wouldn’t help your stomach feel better? I suppose, I sai...
My first escape attempt had been a disaster and this one was likely to land me in an unmarked grave, but the situation wasn’t all bad. At least I was able to cross one thing off my bucket list. You kn...
Most modern cell phones have a built-in GPS chip, even if you don’t have any kind of GPS software. Allegedly to make it easier for emergency services to find you when you dial 911. Allegedly? Caitlin...
Luck comes naturally when you make it yourself.