Most people simply didn't realize they could do things that bent their reality. It was kind of like growing up in a land with no deep rivers or lakes. If you never tried, how would you know if you cou...
Mr. Evans? I called. A moment of your time? He looked at me as if he'd never seen me before. Do I know you? My name is Dina. I own the bed-and-breakfast. He glanced past me at the old house sitting at...
My back hit the wall. He closed in with an almost terrifying intensity. His muscular body boxed me in.Rogan, I warned. In my head, a song played over and over, singing to me in a seductive voice, . ....
My mother stared at the ceiling. Did you hear that? Hear what? I asked, my eyes wide. I would kill Jim. He could sit completely motionless for hours when on stakeouts. I’d seen him do it. He had to be...
My mother used to say that family, blood or found, was our salvation. It was the net that caught us when we drowned and gently lifted us up out of the raging waters. She was wise, my mother.
My wrists and ankles were bleeding. My knees too—I must’ve scraped myself trying to draw the circle. So far today I’d seen a woman almost die, I’d shot a person, I’d killed another person with my shoc...
Never show a weakness; never show pain. The vulnerable get eaten. She would break down later when she was alone, but neither he nor anyone else would ever see it.
No. Besides, if you can’t trust an ice giant driving a creeper van with a dead body inside, who can you trust?
Normally I’d hide my gun in a canvas bag or a purse. Today I didn’t bother. My Baby Desert Eagle rested in a hip holster. Its magazine held twelve rounds, .40 S&W, and I’d brought two spare magazines,...
Now climb, young grasshopper, so your Kung Fu won't be weak.
Now the muted setting made sense: a neutral setting, soothing light, a book. The deep magic fed the beast within him. It took a monumental effort of will to restrain it. With the flare so close, Curra...
Of course, with my luck, the Shepherd could be a crazy numismatist just dying for a Kennedy fifty-cent piece. Maybe I could set a trap with a handful of change. Here, Shepherd, here boy, look, I have...
Oh, so it was a lifesaving kiss.Well, if you want to put it that way... Do me a favor: next time you think my life needs saving, just let me die. I'd really prefer it.He laughed.She shook her head. I'...
Oh. They were trying to be inconspicuous. I bit my lip to keep from laughing. I'd never had an attempt at intimidation whispered at me before.
On Harpy’s Drive we passed a row of trees, each one with its trunk unnaturally bloated and covered with black fuzz. I had no idea what the fuzz did, but we steered clear of it. The law of navigating p...
One day you’ll have to choose diplomacy or your spouse. I’m telling you now, it’s got to be your wife. Diplomacy doesn’t care if you live or die. Your wife does.
Outside I hopped into our vehicle, the taint of vampiric magic clinging to me like greasy smoke. I feel soiled. Like walking into a room after a day of work, falling into bed, and realizing the sheets...
People around me died, usually in horrible and bloody ways.
People must make their own choices, no matter how wrong those choices are. Otherwise they can't be free.
People must make their own choices, no matter how wrong those choices are. Otherwise they can’t be free. A
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