Walk very lightly and carefully, Wade. Look behind every bush.
This is the queasy shadowland, and they don’t even work hard at that because they have never learned to work at anything. They turn sloppy, and when the youngness is gone, there isn’t much left. Just...
The eye records. The eye takes vivid, unforgettable pictures.
That's the way They do you. That's the way They set you up for it. There ought to be a warning bell on the happy-meter, so that every time it creeps high enough, you get that dang-dang alert. Duck, bo...
Soon we will all eat stones.
She went inside and watched him walk back toward sixteen,
In all emotional conflicts the thing you find hardest to do is the thing you should do.
I think he’ll wait until he gets the new generator installed. But what if he leaves with them in the morning? If that seems too dreadful to you, Lois, you can always get drunk. You don’t have to be so...
He tottered in. In a few moments he came out, hair piece in place. But the haggardness of his face made it look more spurious than before.
Gentlemen, a pleasure talking to you. Hope I’ve been of some help. It’s coming upon closing time, and I don’t stay around here one minute more than I need to. We walked to the van. It was no longer in...
Chook’s phone went to nine rings before she answered in the gritty rancor of interrupted sleep. But her voice changed when she recognized mine. Trav! I phoned you last night. Who is that Mrs. Atkinson...
But now Cathy had created the restlessness, the indignation, the beginnings of that shameful need to clamber aboard my spavined white steed, knock the rust off the armor, tilt the crooked old lance an...
But it’s going to be used for the health and welfare of the bank accounts of the businessmen of Palm County, and done with so many reasonable arguments it’ll be years before the public realizes what a...
Sighed. Bring her around sometime. She padded lithely over to me and took my wrist and looked at my watch. Her breathing had slowed. Her leotard was sweat-dark and fitted her almost as closely as her...
Who are you? What do you want? Who are you? Her voice was light and fast and intense and her mouth trembled. She seemed to be on the narrow edge of emotional disaster, holding herself in check with th...
These are the little losers in the bunny derby, but they lose on a different route than the Mariannes, or the ones you see in the supermarket on the nights when they double the green stamps, coming in...
The wide world is full of likable people who get kicked in the stomach regularly.
The scene is reputed to be acrawl with adorably amoral bunnies to whom sex is a pleasant social favor. The new culture. And they are indeed present and available, in exhausting quantity but there is a...
The girl circled in my arm was clean and fresh, and her sleeping breath was humid against the base of my throat. Something stirred in me in response to her helplessness, and yet at the same time I res...
She was back in three minutes just to tell me that she couldn’t guarantee she wouldn’t get a little nutty from time to time, but she felt she was past the pill period, and then she headed back toward...