Even in death the boys were trouble.
NO ONE would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as me...
Indian summer is like a woman.
If you're going to read this, don't bother.
I did stand-up comedy for eighteen years.
Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.
I am a vampire, and that is the truth.
It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs. Shears's house.
It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.
I suppose that's exactly the problem--I wasn't to know any better.
First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.
My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.
If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most Ill-adapted to its purpose in the world: for it is absurd to suppose that the endless affliction of whic...
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
They had flown from England to Minneapolis to look at a toilet.
This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem strange to start a story with and ending, but all endings are also beginnings. We just don't k...
I've begun this letter five times and torn it up five times.
How easy it was to disappear: A thousand trains a day entered or left Chicago.