There was a sniffle from the crowd. At which point, Rhage’s voice hissed, What. This is beautiful, ’kay? Fuck all y’all.
Then again, when you were facing the right person? None of the things they talked about on television, no Vera Wang dress, no champagne waterfall, no DJ or place setting or party favor mattered. ‘I,
The waitress looked a little awkward. Is all that for both you and your sister?
The thing was, when you were young, and you went to your parents for support, nine times out of ten, they could fix whatever was wrong. They could glue the broken rudder back on your sailboat. Throw a...
The thing was, all mortals were going to lose the ones they loved. It was the way life worked. But for most of the time, that reality was so far off in the mind that it had no more weight than a mere...
The territorial anger lit his chest up like a bonfire, teeing off a blaze of power that roared in his body.
The stress and suffering were unimaginable, and in the back of her mind, she recognized that however much she had assumed she’d sympathized with her patients’ families before, had known what they were...
The staircase that was revealed was lit with a soft red glow.I feel like I'm walking down into a porn movie, V muttered as they took the steps with care.Wouldn't that require more black candles for yo...
The smile he gave her was wistful, just a little lift to his mouth. You are a fighter.Yes. Always. And sometimes I'm a whole army.
The princess stood in the center of the cabin, her brilliant red robes and the rubies at her throat and her bloodred eyes all the color of hatred. With her stark hair twisted up off her neck, and her...
The poor thing had cowered away from the sides of the pan, blackened on top, and developed drying cracks. It was inedible, better suited to the construction supply trade than to a dinner plate. A few...
The new kids that were coming in—even the ones who wanted to get where he was—professed love for the rituals and the fundamentals and claimed to be committed to the process, but were really just corpo...
The mountains remained the masters, though. Even in the age of electricity and technology and automobiles and tourism, the Adirondacks dictated the landscape of this stretch of northern New York. So t...
The more you’re exposed to trauma, the more hardened you become to it and the safer you are. And that is a really suck-ass fucking equation, but it is the goddamn truth.Butch
The look in Manny´s eye was the ocular equivalent of a middle finger...
The human reached inside Wrath’s jacket and started pulling out weapons. Three throwing stars, a switchblade, a handgun, a length of chain. Jesus Christ, the cop muttered as he dropped the steel links...
The guy didn’t have resting bitch face so much as resting I’m-going-to-kill-someone-and-light-their-house-on-fire face.
The front door flew open, and Mary shot out of the house, jumping off the porch, not even bothering with the steps to the ground. She ran over the frost-laden grass in her bare feet and threw herself...
The first inhale was— Pretty fucking awful. A
The entire restaurant moved around the center core of the elevator shaft and what must have been the kitchen space.