I hit the arrow key one last time and froze. I’d captured it, all right. It nearly filled the frame, so big it would have to squeeze through the loft’s doors to move around. Or squirm through. I could...
I knew a junkie when I saw one, and this guy was a long-term member of the heroin weight-loss program.
There are two answers to evil, she said. The first is to justify it. The evil that you do is for a good cause, you’ll be validated in the end, it needed to be done, etcetera, etcetera. Of course, once...
I pretended to think, stalling for time. Something you want, something you…oh, right! It just arrived. A big pile of ‘fuck you’ with your name on it. I gave him the finger. Sullivan frowned. What? I s...
It’s true. We get these hormonal urges to tear down corrupt corporations and send entitled billionaire assholes to prison. I shrugged. Women, right?
It’s you, Pix. You and everybody like you. Everybody who reaches out a hand when they don’t have to. Everybody who helps somebody get up on their feet, or gets in the way of a fist so somebody weaker...
I’m taking my cash and going somewhere with sunny skies, frosty drinks, and no extradition treaty with the US.
Jenna Rearden thinks you might be the Devil. Yet here you are. I finished my drink. Lucky for you, I only take payment in cash. I folded the envelope into my pocket, rose, and shook his hand. His grip...
Jenny sends her best, Margaux said. With Nicky being Nicky and Agent Black being, well, everywhere, it’s not safe for her to leave Vegas right now.
Just think of it like this: you’ve got two options, and you have to pick one. I held out my hands, palms upward, juggling them up and down like the arms of a scale. Free money? Bullet in the head? Fre...
The key to walking around places where you’re not supposed to be is to look like you’re too important to be interrupted. Most people are non-confrontational by nature, and if you give them a good reas...
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...
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...
Oh. Oh. Well, that is useful information. Thank you, dear. Yes, yes, you’re terribly thoughtful and I couldn’t have a better best friend. Yes, we’ll have to do a— A con with a bloody spike in his grip...
Two months ago, Lauren Carmichael’s husband and son were murdered in a home invasion. She was conveniently working late that night. Sheldon Kaufman’s sister died two weeks later, casualty of a conveni...
The problem with doing magic under pressure is that the pressure drowns out the flow, the rhythm. It’s like trying to play jazz with a gun to your head.
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...
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...
You see, your magic can only change what things are. His magic can change why things are.
She had personal details about my relationships that only my close friends should have known. So you’ve got a stalker, I said to my reflection in the rearview mirror. And she eats people. Great.
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