MY NAME IS Mouse and I am a Good Dog. Everyone says so.
I looked from the gadget-readied spear and body armor to my slender staff of plain old wood and leather duster.My dick is better than your dick, I said.
There are many things you have never done, Rowl responded. To be frightened of them is of no use to you.
The heart of democracy is violence, Miss Tagwynn, Esterbrook said. In order to decide what to do, we take a count of everyone for and against it, and then do whatever the larger side wishes to do. We’...
Magic is a kind of energy. It is given shape by human thoughts and emotions, by imagination. Thoughts define that shape—and words help to define those thoughts. That’s why wizards usually use words to...
The last thing I had expected to use that cleaning spell for when I had laboriously been forced to learn it was a tide of poisonous scorpion monsters, but any port in a storm.
At five feet and small change, a hundred and not much, she didn’t exactly look like a tough Chicago cop who could face down monsters and maniacs with equal nerve. Chicks like that aren’t supposed to b...
I look around me, man . . . I’m trying to do what I’ve always done, to protect people, to keep them safe from the monsters—only I’m pretty sure I’m one of them. I can’t figure out where I could have ....
The worst lies are almost always silence—or else truth, tainted with just enough deception to rot it to the core.
Don't the Lord, Harry. It's disrespectful.
The moon rose in silver splendor into an October sky strewn with pale clouds and brilliant stars. The clouds churned, a white-foam sea, and the moon was a vast, graceful clipper ship, its sails full o...
My brief flash of relief and confidence melted away. Good thing it did, too. I'm sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time.
The occult community he had in mind was the usual New Age, crystal-gazing, tarot-turning, palm-reading crowd you see in any large city. Most of them were harmless, and many had at least a little abili...
You think you’re funny. Oh, I know I’m funny. Unappreciated, but funny.
The reward for work well-done is more work.
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.
You walk through shadows and one night you will slip and fall. And when you do, we will be there. We will be waiting to bring you down to us. You will be ours in the end.
Hundreds of millions of man-hours of work and struggle and research, blood, sweat, tears, and lives have gone into the history of air travel, and it has totally revolutionized the face of our planet a...
Money is a madness, a delusion-illusion. It’s not made of metal, really. It’s made of time. How much is one’s time worth? If one can convince enough people that one’s time is an invaluable resource, t...
The plan is insane, Ehren said. You are insane. He looked around the inside of the tent. I’ll need some pants.
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