In the center of that open space, a bony woman in a threadbare garment was hunched over a dead plant.Sword of Divine Fire's reaction was succinct: Fuck! The woman cringed as if he'd hit her with a bul...
In order to stay alive, you have to spend all day every day doing stupid meaningless work. And the only way to get out of it is to quit, cut loose, take a flyer, and go off into the wicked world, wher...
In Memoriam, Louis Anglesey, Earl of Upnor, finest swordsman in England, beaten to death with a stick by an Irishman.’ Teague considered it for a moment, then nodded. In Connaught, he added. In Conna...
If you posture defiantly, it tells me that you have not learned the skill of recognizing when you are running awry, and correcting yourself. And you must leave my house in that case, for such people o...
If this all seems ambiguous, that’s because it is; and if that troubles you, you’d hate it here; but if it gives you a feeling of relief, then you are in the right place and might consider staying.
If the item of stolen property had been anything other than a book, it would have been confiscated. But a book is different—it is not just a material possession but the pathway to an enlightened mind,...
I love the scent of a man under pressure.
I locked him out of the reticule, Esma said. He was speaking incoherently of cheese.
I had to let her know that the reason she’d never heard of me was because I was famous.
I am what I am, Ty said. And what is that? Ariane asked. A bartender. Always happy to make new acquaintances. He nodded at Bard. Or to provide guests with drinks. Anyone thirsty?
I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there.There might as well be, Arsibalt said, but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water and bombs. There is only so much that...
Hollywood was merely a specialized bank—a consortium of large financial entities that hired talent, almost always for a flat rate, ordered that talent to create a product, and then marketed that produ...
Holding one of those things in your hands, cleaning the barrel and shoving the rounds into clips, really brings you face-to-face with what a desperate, last-ditch measure they really are. I mean, if i...
His rule of thumb, after a walk, is to drink water until he begins to urinate again. Then he can consider other activities.
Hiro's father, who was stationed in Japan for many years, was obsessed with cameras. He kept bringing them back from his stints in the Far East, encased in many protective layers, so that when he took...
Hiro would have chalked it all up to class differences, except that her parentslived in a house in Mexicali with a dirt floor, and his father made more moneythan many college professors. But the class...
Hiro feels even at this moment that something has been torn open in the world and that he is dangling above the gap, staring into a place where he does not want to be.
Hiro and Chuck grab the closest thing they can find to a corner table. Hirobuttonholes a waiter and surreptitiously orders a pitcher of Pub Special, mixedhalf and half with nonalcoholic beer. This way...
Henry, que en aquel momento tenía once años, no había prestado atención al proceso de elevar el imponente cohete hasta su posición vertical porque se distrajo viendo un par de perros callejeros copula...
He was tempted to park the SUV illegally, since, according to his calculations, the authorities were not likely to catch up with him and demand payment of the parking ticket before the end of the worl...