If each man picks an evil and attacks it relentlessly, how long can evil persist?That was an easy one. Forever. More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.
Goblin, that was a dumb stunt.- It sure was. Made me feel forty years younger.
We abjure labels. We fight for money and an indefinable pride. The politics, the ethics, the moralities, are irrelevant.
These boys both fell out of the ugly tree at a young age, hitting every damned branch on the way down. Then their mommas whupped them with an ugly stick and fed them ugly soup every day of their lives...
Part of winning is a downdeep certainty that, no matter how bad things look, a road to victory will open.
My name is Case. Philodendron Case. Thanks to my Ma. I’ve never even told Raven about that. That’s why I joined the army. To get away from the kind of potato diggers that would stick a name like that...
My equally peerless memory allows as to how she included you in that base canard. Would that be a musical instrument? Might we find it in the orchestra pit? What kind of musician plays the bass canard...
It was one of those moments in which I become very uncomfortable. One of those times when nothing you say can be right, and almost anything you do say is wrong. I could see no answer but the classic C...
I reserve the right to be unreasonable, inconsistent, and arbitrary in an unreasonable, inconsistent, and arbitrary universe.
But maybe there is a force for greater good, created by our unconscious minds conjoined, that becomes an independent power greater than the sum of its parts.
Ah, the smell of mystery and dark doings, of skulduggery and revenge. The meat of a good tale.
Money has no provenance. It’s never dirty, only the people who handle it are.
An iron law of warfare. No matter how clever you are at finding a new tool, your opponent will come up with a counter long before that can possibly be convenient for you.
You who come after me, scribbling these Annals, by now realize that I shy off portraying the whole truth about our band of blackguards. You know they are vicious, violent, and ignorant. They are compl...
The Lady was medicine bad enough. The Dominator, though, was the body of which her evil was but a shadow. Or so the legend goes. I sometimes wonder why, if that is true, she walks the earth and he lie...
None of us are going to get out of this alive so we might as well grab a laugh while we can.
Mistakes that cost lives aren’t easy to understand or forgive, but they happen. Despite what they want us mortals to believe, doctors are human. And where there are human beings, there’s human error....
Limper flopped violently. The gag flew out of his mouth. His ankle bonds parted. He gained his feet, tried to run, tried to mouth some spell that would protect him. He had gone thirty feet when a thou...
Let’s say the madonnas of the night in Elm were severely disappointed in the Black Company.
Its front sags against its neighbor to the right, clinging for support like one of its own drunken patrons.