I now had two handy shafts of wood with jagged, pointy ends. I stepped between Inari and the nearest vampire and passed her one broken half of the rod. Here, I said. If you get the chance, make like B...
Thank God for imminent doomsday.
Inari screamed and swung her stake, but her Buffy impersonation wasn't any better than mine.
Star Trek? I asked her. Really? What? she demanded, bending unnaturally black eyebrows together. There are two kinds of people in the universe, Molly, I said. Star Trek fans and Star Wars fans. This i...
Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob?Bob's eyes darted nervously. I'd . . . prefer not to. I'd really, really prefer not to. You have no idea. That me was crazy. And buff. He worked out.
I’d had a key to the marina’s locks at one time, but I’d lost track of it when I got shot, drowned, died, got revived into a coma, haunted my friends for a while, and then woke up in Mab’s bed. (My li...
Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.
I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii in the city of Chicago, I said at once. Elvii? Marcone inquired.The plural would be Elvises, I guess, I said. But if I say that too often, I start muttering...
But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.
Wait. You work for me?I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.
Raith smiled. There. You already feel yourself weakening. I've taken thousands like you, lovely child. Taken them and broken them. There was nothing they could do. There is nothing you can do. You wer...
Beside me, Molly rolled her shoulders in a few jerky motions and pushed at her hair in fitful little gestures. She tugged at her well-tattered skirts, and grimaced at her boots. Can you see if there’s...
There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.
So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?
Hush, Harry. Or you'll go to the special hell.I blinked at that, confused. I'm not supposed to be the guy who doesn't get the reference joke, dammit.
A ship's captain was her master and the right hand of God in Heaven Himself, and concerned with matters of such grave importance that minor issues like food for the mortals in his command were entirel...
There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen.
Pansy, Murphy sneered.Thomas leered at her. You make my stamen tingle when you talk like that, Sergeant.
You don't have to make fun of it.Actually I do, I said. I make fun of almost everything.
Lea stood upon a fallen log ahead of us, staring ahead. Mouse walked up to her.Gggrrrr rawf arrrgggrrrrarrrr, I said.Mouse gave me an impatient glance, and somehow--I don't know if it was something in...
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