This creature serves you? Sanya asked.This one and about a hundred smaller ones. And five times that many part-timers I can call in once in awhile. I thought about it. It isn't so much that they serve...
These creatures have destroyed our lands. Murdered our people. Isana lifted her chin. Pay them for it.When Antillus Raucus looked up, his eyes were hard, cold, and clear. Watch me.
There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things no one knows. You always learn the damnedest things at the worst possibl...
There was a low growling sound and the came gliding up out of the parking garage, dripping water from its gleaming surface like some lantern-eyed leviathan rising from the depths. There were still a...
There are no words. It was like The Lord of the Rings and All My Children made a baby with the Macho Man Randy Savage and a Whac-A-Mole machine. Butters sputtered
There are moments in your life that, when you look back at them, you realize were perfect.
The whole lets find Bigfoot thing seems a little ill-planned to me, personally. Granted, my perspective is different than that of non-wizards, but marching out into the woods looking for a very large...
The warehouse was a part of the wharves down at the lakeside, and even the chill waters of Lake Michigan were warmer than usual. They filled the air with more than the average water-scent of mud and m...
The very best wizards don’t need much more than chalk, table salt, and a wooden spoon to pull off some remarkable stuff.
The venom, she [Susan] said quietly. They call it their Kiss.I guess I can't blame them. It sounds a lot more romantic than 'narcotic drool.
The position must have been excruciating—it isn’t every day that you get crucified and hung up as dinner for a monster, and you can’t really train your muscles for it.
The freaking Leanansidhe, deputy of Her Wickedness, with her Nietzsche and Darwin Were Sentimental Pansies outlook on life
The fastest way for us to help make him into a monster is to look at him like he is one.
The Queen smiled with the tiniest twitch of a single corner of her mouth. Why should I do that?Because I'm coming, Octavian's image said, very quietly, for you.
The Queen closed her eye and nodded. She opened it again, and there was a tear tracking down her face. I tried to be what I was meant to be, Father. It was never personal.
The Black Hole? Grey asked, incredulously. Nobody quotes The Black Hole, Dresden. Nobody even remembers that one. Hogwash. Ernest Borgnine, Anthony Perkins, and Roddy McDowall all in the same movie? I...
That’s just a fiction, I said, a little game of protocol. Little games of protocol are how one shows respect, especially to those with whom one does not get along famously well. It can be tedious, but...
Susan smiled at me, giving Molly the Female Once-Over - a process by which one woman creates a detailed profile of another woman based upon about a million subtle details of clothing, jewelry, makeup,...
Such hats often signified humans who considered themselves important, which was adorable for the first few moments and trying ever after.
Steady as she goes, Mister Kettle, the grim gaptain said, his voice stern.