It is an age lurching along the lip of a dark precipice, peeking fearfully into chaos's empty eyes, enrapt, like a giddy rat trying to stare down a hungry cobra. The gods are restless, tossing and tur...
I was never really a girl, or a woman, or a human being to Raven, Case. Even though he did awful things for me. I was a symbol, an expiation, and when I insisted on becoming a person he did the only t...
I am a haunted man. I am haunted by the Limper’s screams. I am haunted by the Lady’s laughter. I am haunted by my suspicion that we are furthering the cause of something that deserves to be scrubbed f...
God Save the Queen.’ Which is a particularly filthy drinking song about a cross-dressing fellow who has mad skills as a streetwalker but often gets
Can’t get my people inside. These crackpots are abidingly paranoid. If a man has even a tenth part nonhuman blood, he’s a breed and part of the problem. Never mind he might have been a war hero. The s...
We all have our pasts. I suspect we keep them nebulous not because we are hiding from our yesterdays but because we think we will cut more romantic figures if we roll our eyes and dispense delicate hi...
The first thing I saw was a mottled green face half a yard wide staring through the broken window. I said something intelligent like, Gleep! The face grinned. It was a groll, a hybrid of human, troll,...
Seems to know you, the Captain observed. He thought I was dead. Jalena rejoined his party. He gabbled and pointed. Pale-faced men looked our way. They argued briefly, then the whole lot fled the garde...
I was my usual charming morning self, threatening blood feud with anyone fool enough to disturb my dreams.
I snuck a glance at her. She wore a teasing little smile. I shifted my attention to the fighting. What she did to me, just sitting there, amidst the fury of the end of the world, was more frightening...
Don’t you guys ever sleep? Sleep? What’s that? Wait! Yeah! I remember. They used to let me do that when I was in the army. Once a week whether I needed it or not.
No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see how they could survive their own...