Mrs. Heller, I’m Dr. Yurovsky. Can you hear me? Lauren considered replying, then decided not to bother. Too much effort. The words weren’t coming out the way she wanted. Mrs. Heller, if you can hear m...
Listen, I said. There was once this legendary French acrobat named Charles Blondin, okay? He was famous in the nineteenth century for doing these impossible daredevil tightrope-walking stunts. He stru...
Inscribed on the back was a line from Virgil in Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favors the bold. He’d been bold all right, but Fortune hadn’t gotten the memo.
The rain was pattering hypnotically on the plane’s exterior.
As the saying goes not every conspiracy is a theory.
A man’s most open actions have a secret side to them. —JOSEPH CONRAD
He glanced at me, then chuckled. Sprezzatura’s an Italian word. Means the art of making something difficult look easy.
You know what I always say—never let an asshole rent space in your head.