All you have to do is to hold them until the cops get here, and then you can bleed to death in peace. Or get to a doctor. Whichever hurts less.
All hospital emergency rooms have the same feel to them. They’re all decorated in the same dull, muted tones and softened edges, which are meant to be comforting and aren’t. They all have the same sme...
Ah. Medieval-style ransom.Toot looked confused. He did run some, but I stopped him, my lord. Like, just now. In front of you. Right over there. There were several conspicuous sounds behind me, the lou...
Against anything human, more than one round to the head would be overkill: When the merely mortal goes up against the supernatural, there's no such as overkill
After the way I left, I suddenly find myself wanting very much to go home. But . . . it won’t be the same when I get back. Will it? It will be the same, Grimm said. You’re the one who has changed.
A wonderful place, the mind, but if it has any kind of disappointing failure, it’s that it always attempts to put new things into the context of things which are already familiar to it.
A stuffed animal, man! I roared at him. Don’t mess with a wizard when he’s wizarding!
A second later the door opened and Murphy glared up at me, blue eyes bright and cold. Get more away. I've been fighting this computer all day long. I swear, if you blow out my hard drive again, I'm ta...
A bunch of people are gonna be mad at me, I’ve got some kind of medical issue that’s going to kill me in a while if I don’t deal with it, oh, and the island’s blowing up tomorrow and taking a whole lo...
The Stone Table [was] a place that served as the OK Corral for the Faerie Courts when they decided to engage in diplomacy by means of murdering anyone on the other team.
Wolf’s fur was speckled with drops of blood that had beaded on it like rain. The gravel in the alley shone in the half-light from the distant street lamps. The wolf’s muzzle, a little shorter and broa...
What good is magic if it cannot be used to make a delicious cup of a fine beverage?
The border’s been waggling back and forth like a hooker at a dockworker’s convention.
The beginning of wisdom is in realizing that one knows nothing, then the beginning of understanding is in realizing that all things exist in accord with a single truth: Large things are made of smalle...
That underlay the city of Chicago.
See something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them, I told him. It’s probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.
Rocket launcher like it was a coat. Karrin let him, giving him an edged smile that she directed past him, to the shadows where the Genoskwa lurked. I didn’t kill the accountant, she said quietly. Nico...
Patterns of cloth busier than the makeup girl at a Kiss concert
Now, I still didn’t have enough money to pay for all the repairs, and I had set out to fix the door on my own. I hadn’t framed it very well, but I try to think positive: The new door was arguably even...
Hardly a man ever made a fool of himself by keeping his bloody mouth shut.