Northern San Diego. The white stucco walls rose, interrupted by huge windows. The whole structure nearly floated off the pavement, sleek, modern, and somehow light, almost delicate. The salt-spiced wi...
Once you become their Other, you’re no longer a person. You’re just an idea, an abstraction of everything that’s wrong with their world. Give them the slightest excuse, and they will tear you down. An...
Problem with honesty was that it gave your opponent ammunition to use against you.
Psychopath murders because he can’t help himself. They are perpetrating mass murder for no real immediate gain. I stared at him helplessly. How can you do this to your neighbors? They would have to mu...
Seeing Derek fall as he turned human again, and then running too fast up Pillar Rock. She’d dropped to her knees and put her head on his chest, and when she’d heard the strong, even heartbeat, she’d c...
Swore. Barabas said you might say that. I’m supposed to tell you this. Ascanio cleared his throat and produced a remarkably accurate impression of Barabas’s tenor. Courage, Your Majesty. I will kill h...
The Law of Bronwyn had proven true again and again, so often that it was simply accepted. Once a species is introduced to interstellar spaceflight, it will advance technologically but not socially
Then you saw the vampires, smeared in purple and lime-green sunblock, patrolling those snow-white walls
Tightrope.
Typical sentient’s psyche is a spiderweb. Pull on the right thread and you will get the desired result. Praise them and they will like you. Ridicule them and they’ll hate you. Greedy can be bought, ti...
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 so. William would probably fit that bill. Part of
Was a granite island of calm. When the turbulent storms rocked her inner world, until she was no longer sure where reality ended and the hungry madness inside her began, she clung to that island
Wasn’t sure who would win then. TEN KALDAR lay on a low ridge, wearing one of the Mirror’s night suits.
When sleep mugged him.
When they give you a choice, it’s a selection of handpicked possibilities they have prescreened. No matter what you decide, the core choice has already been made, and you weren’t involved in it.
When you make a sequence of wrong choices, eventually you’re left with no choice at all.
Which had required enough dimensional finagling to make an entire university of theoretical physicists beg for mercy,
Who?
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.
You think I would be old enough? I'm a grown
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