And then the light turns into a snake, and I turn into a snake, although I’m pretty sure those last two are due more to my choice of bedtime reading than to Molly’s memories.
Someone dropped her off in a shopping mall food court just before her third birthday. Pinned to her dress was a note with the name Anna, a date of birth, and the words, .
It’s like saving up that perfect comeback you read in a book or heard on TV—it always sounds good in your head, but it never quite fits in real life.
You know, this would be a lot easier to get used to if you had to go back to your TARDIS or whatever before you disappeared.
Maybe it’s just the fact that this has been one bitch of a day. Either way, his question annoys me. I kind of want to reach across the coffee table and smack him.
Kiernan doesn’t answer. He just turns toward the door and walks out, limping. He bangs both the cabin door and the porch door on his way out. Pretty sad for someone who seems to think he’s being the a...
Before you start what? He shakes his head. Not telling. You have to come and see. There’s a mischievous light in his eyes, and in that moment he looks so very much like his eight-year-old self, waitin...
After a few miles, I push play and the audiobook starts. It might be nice to ride through the night, believing in magic for a while, magic of either the Hogwarts variety or the Muggle sort that will k...
You can skip the part in the middle where he goes off on a tangent about how the Delphi psychics contacted the Grand Duchess Anastasia while on these drugs. Pretty sure she’d have been dead by then— N...
Miss Kate! Kiernan exclaimed, pointing. What happened to your toes? What? I glanced down, half expecting to see a leech or a cut or some other trauma, but there was nothing odd. What are you talking a...
I’m not delusional, Aaron. I know he’s nearly six feet tall. Deo’s not a little kid to anyone but me. But I held him when he cried. When he a little kid. I promised him I’d keep the monsters away. Th...
I haven’t eaten, Aaron says, nodding down at the large white bag in his hands. And I’m guessing Daniel didn’t feed you on the way over, because . . . well, because he’s . . . so I bought extra. Do we...
A few seconds later, I heard Katherine’s voice from below. Kate, you have a gentleman caller. I rolled my eyes. How is it that a grandmother from the twenty-fourth century sounds like she’s from a Cha...
Verse after verse follows, her voice rising to a crescendo and then falling, only to rise again with a new passage, each echoing the same refrain. I never realized how many verses of the Bible boil do...
And with that, he began walking at a rapid clip toward the Sixtieth Street station. Several members of the crowd I’d just pushed my way through came over to help me up, and one rather gallant gentlema...
Abel was arrested. So was the guy with me. Help me get Delia out of the trunk. His expression borders on horror. Well, you knew you’d have to let her out eventually when you put her in there, didn’t y...
Kiernan. I had a sudden memory of the small, scuffed-up shoe I’d seen just before I fell. He must have snatched the bracelet when the crowd gathered around me. If I managed to get out, I resolved to g...
It’s a hard lesson in life, but you have to accept that some things are out of your hands. Otherwise, you’ll never know a single minute of peace. You mend what you can, and you let the rest go. You ju...
I always dreamed ’bout ridin’ the big wheel, Mick added, looking down at his shoes with a plaintive expression. But me mom needs all the money I c’n make. He glanced around at the others and then back...
And one day, if I see your smile on her face, maybe that'll keep me from feeling I've left a piece of my heart behind.