A tiny dark object came sailing out of the window and landed at the giant's feet. Polybotes yelled, Grenade!He covered his face. His troops hit the ground.When the thing did not explode, Polybotes ben...
A telkhine was hunched over a console, but he was so involved with his work, he didn't notice us. He was about five feet tall, with slick black seal fur and stubby little feet. He had the head of a Do...
I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.
The Romans always wanted bread and circuses-food and entertainement! As we destroy their city, I will offer them both. Behold, a sample!"Someething dropped from the ceiling and landed at Percy's feet:...
She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me."Be careful seaweed brain." She said putting on her invisible cap and disappearin...
[Jason] faltered when he looked at Leo, who was mimicking taking notes with an air pencil.Go on, Professor Grace! he said, wide-eyed. I wanna get an A on the test.
When Nico had woken up at Barrachina and found the Hunters’ note about kidnapping Reyna, he’d torn apart the courtyard in rage. He didn’t want the Hunters stealing another important person from him. F...
We should go straight west. The prophecy said west.Oh, like your tracking skills are better? Thalia growled.Zoe stepped toward her. You challenge my skills, you scullion? You know of being a Hunter!O...
There was Tyson moving into the Poseidon cabin, giggling to himself every fifteen seconds and saying, Percy is my brother? like he'd just won the lottery.Aw, Tyson, I'd say. It's not that simple.
The two of them looked so comfortable together it made Nico glad. But it also it caused an ache in his heart – a ghostly pain, like an old war wound throbbing in bad weather.
The people who deserved to die took forever to do so. Those who deserved to live always went too soon.
The bridge fell away into the chasm, and the Cyclops howled ... with delight, because he was standing right next to us.
Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate
Somewhere behind me, Zia yelled, Hippo! Which I thought was a little late.~Carter Kane
Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth.
Percy yelled. What's going- Gah! Shrimpzilla!
Percy pulled Annabeth close and kissed her... long enough for it to get really awkward for Piper, though she said nothing. She thought about the old rule of Aphrodite's cabin: that to be recognized as...
My son Asclepius had become the god of medicine by the time he was fifteen, and I couldn’t have been happier for him. It left me time for my other interests. Besides, it’s every god’s dream to have a...
Imagine jumping into a pit of boiling acid. Now multiply that pain times fifty. -Percy
If anybody felt worse than I did, it was Amos. I had just enough magic to turn myself into a falcon and him into a hamster (hey, I was rushed!)