War always takes your life. Sometimes it’s just not all at once.
Usually I try to suppress any emotions that savor of regret, because they are invariably aperitifs to a main course of depression, and for the long-lived, that’s a recipe for suicide. But that doesn’t...
Turns out that when you kill a god, people want to talk to you.
Turns out that when you kill a god, people want to talk to you. Paranormal insurance salesmen with special godslayer term life policies. Charlatans with god-proof armor and extraplanar safe houses for...
They say, ‘You know nothing, Jon Snow.
They need to get a good PR guy. What’s a PR guy? They’re kind of like the old Greek sophists who played with words until you believed up was down. PR guys get paid to make people believe that a pile o...
There’s a reason Bath & Body Works doesn’t have a line of products called Huge Fucking Squirrel.
There ye go again, my archdruid said. Using your colon instead of yer brain. Ye believe yer thinkin’ because yer workin’ hard, but all yer doin’ is squeezin’ out shit.
The witch obviously wanted my help with something, and I could only assume that she wanted a new body to inhabit. But I didn’t have any of those currently in stock, and bodies were one of the few thin...
The sun cannot shine as bright without a proper darkness to counter it.The world had gone a bit gray.
The mourning of a loved one never ends at the funeral. It comes back every so often like a stage performer eager for a curtain call and expects you to be loud about it.
The mad fucker just laughed that insane laugh and pulled his sword out of his ass. Zeus, now afflicted with acute pietism, gasped and asked him to do that again. Jupiter slapped him to to the ground,...
That’s using religion to cudgel people into conformity, and it grinds my gears.
That’s it, Flanagan said, his thick hands gripping the bar and his eyes wide. I’m getting back on the wagon and I’m never getting off again. Oh, Jesus, look at that. I’m looking, Jesus said. Flanagan...
That wasn't English she was speaking: it was the language of diplomacy.
Some o’ the words in this book might not be immediately pronounceable for some readers because they have foreign origins. Heck, I needed help myself. But I like learning new words and how to say them,...
So this means you're spoiling me right?Can't Help it. You're the best hound ever.Oberon's tail thumped a few times and his mouth partially opened, seeming to smile at me.
So after I killed him and stowed his body next to the doe, I sampled his smoothie concoction in the parking lot and found it to be quite delicious.
Sensei? she asked. Yes? Why are you always leaving about halfway through a workout to give Oberon a snack? What? Well, he’s a good dog. Granted, but he’s a good dog all the time, and the only times...
People do that—cling to their past because it’s the only thing they consider safe. Trying something new or just accepting it turns their livers into jelly. But that’s a load of bollocks. Ye take the n...