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...
My guys saw you on Fremont last week, Dan. You know what they saw you doing? Their mothers? I replied. Funny, he said and turned back to Juliette.
Not always true. In ’08, that was the first and only year we played Monopoly. Four people died.
Now bottle your hatred and store it in your heart’s pantry for a thirstier day.
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...
Readers familiar with the Vegas Strip will have noticed the changing of casino names. This was done to provide a certain amount of legal cover (since the real casinos might not look kindly upon accusa...
Security? I asked. Like the Chippendales Nadine brought with her? I’m not kidding, Royce, I think those guys are off-duty strippers. I hope you’re not paying her a consultation fee. Royce arched one e...
She slapped an envelope down on the table and loudly announced, Fredrika Vinter, House of Vinter, champion of good taste. If you don’t know what that is, I’ll buy you a dictionary.
Spend enough time living on the wrong side of the law, magic powers or not, you grow a sixth sense for when things are about to go sideways. Think of it as Darwinism for criminals. You learn when to w...
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...
That kind? How many kinds of zombies are there? There’s the kind that eat people, the kind that don’t eat people… Margaux’s voice trailed off as she thought it over. Two. Two kinds. Plenty of variatio...
The cellar itself? Not shown. Probably wanna check that out. The cellar, I said. Great. Because nothing bad ever happens in the cellars of creepy old houses.
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.
The problem with security, real and bulletproof security, is that it’s ugly. By way of example, take a look at a supermax prison or better yet, a liquor store in the bad part of town. The rich and bea...
There are some sounds, and some languages, that are so alien to our nature that the human brain naturally rebels at them. You’d think we’d take that as a hint. Caitlin? I managed to stammer, the rest...
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...
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...
Well hello, Caitlin said, eyeing the shepherd. The last time I saw you, you were wearing your heart on your sleeve. Because I ripped it out and put it there.
You killed a buddy of mine, back at the shelter. Yeah? What about the other three guys I killed? You didn’t like them as much? That shut him up, at least. The elevator door whispered open. Jennifer an...
You know all those movies where the bad guy gets captured, but it turns out that was the key to his master plan all along? Not gonna lie. I’d always wanted to do that.
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