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...
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.
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 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’...
There are many things you have never done, Rowl responded. To be frightened of them is of no use to you.
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.
MY NAME IS Mouse and I am a Good Dog. Everyone says so.
Five white candles surrounded my summoning circle, the points of an invisible pentacle. White for protection. And because they’re the cheapest color at Wal-Mart.
No, Bob. Just no. For crying out loud. She's seventeen. Better move quick, then, Bob said. Before anything starts to droop. Taste of perfection while you can, that's what I always say.
I have a monster under my bed, and it's Mouse.
Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.
None of us had known the layout to Marcone’s place, so we’d chosen to approach from the rear, on general principles of sneakiness.
Not every man in the Senate is some kind of masterful schemer, exerting all his energies to acquire more power and influence at the expense of all others. No, Isana agreed. Some of them are incompeten...
The best way to keep yourself from doing something grossly self-destructive and stupid is to avoid the temptation to do it. For example, it is far easier to fend off inappropriate amorous desires if o...
Your face looks like a sack of purple potatoes
You’re such a cynic, Molly said. I think cynics are playful and cute.
Your kind, Aleran, are the most vicious and gentle, most savage and noble, most treacherous and loyal, most terrifying and fascinating creatures I have ever seen.' Her fingers brushed over his cheek a...
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...
No story that juicy was going to stay secret for long.
Later. Bad habit to get into, Thomas said. Life’s too short.
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