That's for me, isn't it? I'm going to Hell.Don't feel so bad. It beats Fresno.
Sometimes there’s nothing worse than the truth. It can be harder and sharper and hurt more than a knife. The truth can clear a room faster than tear gas.
She kisses me on the cheek and runs back into Donut Universe. People in line glare at me, wondering why I rate special treatment. I saved your lives, assholes. Let me have a fucking donut. C
It means the faction found us. He looks around again. How? How the fuck do I know? Spy satellites? Facial recognition pigeons on the freeway signs? Ballerinas with Uzis? What does it matter? Just hit...
If I’m going to ride this out and stay alive, then I’m king high ballbuster. I took on God and almost did the old man in. A few grumpy horns and hoofs types and a petting zoo full of rabid Pokemons? I...
If Donald Trump and the Wicked Witch of the West had a kid, it would be Jayne-Anne. She looks like a librarian with some money and good taste in clothes but underneath the Verace, she's Godzilla with...
I take a long drag on the Malediction like maybe it’ll start a tornado and carry me back home like Dorothy.
I look at her bandaged hands. You all right? Just a couple of blisters. Some asshole convinced me to run through a furnace. He sounds shady. As your lawyer, I advise you to avoid him in the future. It...
I don’t seem to be alone anymore. Very well, says Vehuel. We’d like— Shh, he says, holding up a hand. I’m trying to count. Of course, Vehuel says in a tone that makes it pretty obvious she’s not used...
Every day I walk down Hollywood Boulevard and see civilians making themselves crazy worrying about the meetings they're late for or did they put the rent check in the mail or is their ass starting to...
Down here in the pain, I don’t have to know. I just note the question and move on. Answers are rare and come in their own time but hangovers are reliable and never in short supply.
At least your absence wasn’t eleven years like your last trip. How was your time in Le Merdier? Dusty. There was a judge down there. He spoke more languages and was crazier than you. If I live, I’ll t...
As sweet as it feels, I can’t lie here forever curled up in a big ball of fuck-the-world.
Another scar or two won't ruin my pretty face. Right.Carlos, are you being polite? That's not why I came here for. I know I'm not Steve McQueen.My lady is totally in love with him. Lucky for me he's d...
Young man, there are some things in the world so profane that their only real value is in not knowing about them.
With a coterie of unpleasant residents doing mischief with travelers. What’s a coterie? A somewhat large group. How large? Some say an army, said Ipos. But a minor one. Why didn’t you say so? It sound...
Wherever we are, it isn’t like the Tenebrae. No desert monotony. No spiked mountains. It’s more like forest land after a nuke attack. Bare, mossy skeleton-like trees and tough tangles of gray and gree...
When we get there I say, If anyone says you ran, point them out and I’ll hit them. She grabs my arm. I don’t need you to fight my battles for me. I’m not fighting for you. I just like punching people.
When she shocks me this time, it’s on the inside of my thigh, close enough to my balls to make them consider finding work elsewhere.
What do you want me to do? says Kasabian. I don’t think Howard can get out of the bedroom, but if he does . . . I know. Punch him in the balls. You got it.