Why the rifle? Everybody knows you can’t shoot. Who were these everybodies and would they like to stand in front of me, preferably within ten feet, so I could discuss this issue in greater detail? I c...
She wants lilacs in her wedding bouquet.Okay . . . Nevada had said she wanted carnations, but we could stuff some pretty pink lilacs in there. I didn’t see the problem.Blue, Arabella squeezed out. She...
If there is anything I can do, I'll help. Don't get excited. It's not because of you. For the child. If it wasn't for her and the flare, I'd throw your dumb ass out of this window.What does the flare...
You could’ve found me. You could’ve demanded an explanation. Instead your bright idea to deal with this mess was not to talk to me. Do you get off having me chase after you like some sixteen-year-old?...
PARTY STARTER.
In death, they all looked the same. This morning they spoke, they breathed, they kissed their loved ones good-bye. And now they lay dead. Gone forever.
In her rare moments of desperation, she wanted a man to look at her like she meant the world to him, and failing that, she would settle for someone who thought she was beautiful and told her
Now we had two invisible intruders. Because one wasn't hard enough.
In the crime novels, a PI is either an ex-cop or has some cop buddies who owed him a favor and who happily provided him with the department's files, while carrying on about how it could cost them thei...
In the event of a Law Enforcement Breach, a computer would the first thing the LEOs --law enforcement officers --would confiscate. I had a laptop upstairs in plain view, partially for that exact purpo...
Johns Hopkins, which was a trip I was doing my best to forget. We almost died, and while we were away, a local family we knew was murdered. Julie and Derek had handled it, but thinking about it still...
Is there anything in the legends about a topaz called the Wolf Diamond? A large yellow gem maybe? I asked. Dali wrinkled her forehead. Topaz is associated with Brihaspati—Jupiter. The Roman god? Jim f...
It fires .50 cal at twice the speed of sound. It will hit him before he ever hears the shot. My mother crossed her arms. I’d like to see him bounce that off his chest.
It wasn’t a bluff; I heard it in his voice. He would do it. He would walk away. You would leave all these people, all the bowing, and the . . . His gray eyes looked into mine. If I fought for them and...
Kate smirked.What?Your horse looks pink.So?If you paste some stars on her butt you'll be riding My Little Pony.Bugger off. I patted the mare's neck. Don't listen to her, Sugar. You are the cutest hors...
When in doubt and in need of information, find a snitch and squeeze him.
You mean he doesn’t instantly hero-worship you? Perish the thought. He scowled at me. I think I’ll make mouthing off to the Beast Lord a punishable offense. Punishable by what? Oh, I’ll think of somet...
It’s the way of our universe. A never-ending chain of cannibalism: the stronger prey on the weaker only to become prey in return. The only way to win the game is to not play.
It’s this beautiful thing you can never reach. No matter what you do, you’ll never touch it. You can only look and imagine what it would be like to hold it.
I’d believed him. He was supposed to be different, to be more. He’d made me hope for things I didn’t think I’d ever get. When hope broke, it hurt. Mine was a very big, very desperate hope, and it hurt...
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