When I'm with him, I can feel myself getting better. It's like he's picking up broken pieces of me and putting me back together, and I don't even know he's doing it. We never talk about it. We don't g...
The decorator of Las Colimas must have been a great admirer of both early Aztec and late Taco Bell architectural styles.
Grandpa? Declan raised his eyebrows.We keep him in the shed out back, Jack said helpfully. So he doesn't eat dog brains.
Curran smiled. What’s so funny?Your panties have a bow, he said.I looked down. I was wearing a short tank top—not mine—and my blue panties with a narrow white strip of lace at the top and a tiny white...
As he passed me, he leaned to Curran and handed him a paper fan folded from some sort of flyer.Curran looked at the fan. What?An emergency precaution, Your Majesty. In case the lady faints.Curran just...
I've read your summary.And?It's not incompetent.Be still, my heart, so I don't faint from such faint phrase. Did you expect it to be written in crayon?
You might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.
It depends. If I don't let you in, will you huff and puff and blow my house down? She had no idea. I'm more of a kick the door open and cut everyone inside to ribbons kind of wolf.
Our standard rate. A doubloon a day.It was generous. More than generous--some families would put him up for a week for a single coin.Half a doubloon a day, she said.No, you see, the idea behind bargai...
What happened?You fell.Really? What did I fall into?My fist.That explains the headache.
You know, she said, stirring her tea, the fastest way to get him off your back is to sleep with him. And tell him you love him. Preferably while in bed.I smirked and the tea almost came out of my nose...
Rose put down her fork. Lord Submarine... Camarine. Whatever.
When walking into the lair of the dragon after robbing his hoard, the least you could do is hold you head high [...]
How are you?Perfectly fine, he said.Are your ribs broken?Probably not. Cracked at most. We fought very carefully.Did this settle anything?It made me feel better, he said, sitting up. Did you see me ki...
What happened? I asked quietly. I lost some people, [Rogan] said. There was an awful finality in his voice. I hadn't thought he cared. I'd thought he viewed his people as tools and took care of them b...
Mad Rogan: Resistance is futile.Nevada: You are not assimilating me!
An evil spark flared in his eyes. Trade: raccoon for some answers.
I had to give it him, to flatter and insult a woman in one propostition took talent.
On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt.
The skull sat on top of an old Stop sign. Someone had painted the surface of the octagon white and written KEEP OUT across it in large jagged letters. A reddish-brown splatter stained the bottom edge,...
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