Wanted that to be my bedroom, he says. It’d be so easy to sneak out at night to TP yards, egg cars, and punch people. Yes, Stevie has an active social life.
Troubled. I hope I’m wrong. But I really need to run along. It was nice meeting you, Graham. [Editor’s
Some being attended to by EMS teams. Oh, Jesus, I whispered under my breath. I spotted medical techs in black windbreakers huddled over the body of a young girl by the front steps. A couple of plaincl...
So imagine the day your great-great-grandmother was born. Got it? Now go back another hundred years or so. And then another hundred. That’s about when they built Hills Village Middle School. Of course...
Profanity-laden tirade that took some of the polish off her sophisticated veneer,
Of my jacket pocket. By this point, with my full workday and tonight’s party of all parties to plan, I was more surprised when it wasn’t going off. A sound, deafening even by midtown Manhattan standar...
Oaks, the forest opened up and we flew in an oval pattern around the scene. The grille of a blue Mustang was nosed up against an earthen barrier, the vehicle’s doors open. Two bodies, both male, were...
My forehead and armpits are spritzing like a berserk watering can cursed by an angry garden gnome. I roll out to center stage and fiddle with the microphone,
Equal dose of potassium chloride was administered. This drug relaxes the heart and stops its pumping.
Aunt Bela would be most pleased. Wait a second, I said. You know Bela Kilgore? The man in the fez smiled. Oh, yes, Kidd
And Bree fighting last night? We weren’t fighting, I said. We were arguing. Loud argument. Passionate subject, I said. And Bree’s under a lot of pressure from the top brass to make something happen, s...
Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.
You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers.
You must create a plan that highlights your strengths and hides your flaws.
You know, I guess I just don't like to talk a lot about sad things. Now you know my flaw. What good does it do to talk about sad things in the past?
You know how some kids get excited about the first day of school and have an outfit all picked out and a new lunch box and stuff? Well, they're bleeping idiots.Can we play hooky? Iggy muttered as he s...
You could have gotten a car with GPS, Total said helpfully.Yes, I said Or we could have brought along a dog that doesn't talk. I gave Angel a pointed look, and she smiled, well, angelically, at me.Tot...
Whether or not he wanted me the same way I wanted him, we were in this together—that was what Robinson had said. It had never occurred to me before what a complicated word together was.
Victory belongs to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. Soneji
Then I found it: the source of the blood, the place where he'd been shot.'Total?' I said, and I got a slight whimper. 'You have a boo-boo on your tail.