Dwarf mothers didn’t handicap their young by teaching them to be polite. My neighbors were as short on manners as they were on stature.

That demon will trick you faster than a politician with a liquor license.

It was said that if you duped death, if you kept someone alive who should have died, then you might be called to die in their place. Energy was demanded, if not from one source,...

It will change your life if you accept her offer. Common pleasures will no longer hold sway over you. It’s somewhat like catching religion.

Most people only have stray thoughts and it stays at that. But you’ve got power, darlin’. You flung out walking evil. Let’s hope you can bring up a remedy too.

You seem to be trying to ride a pony named Trouble all the way to the border.

I never studied on fighting demons, but that don’t mean I aim to let this one defeat us. The dark ones have their share of limitations too.

Jason had joked that dust bunnies under the bed were pets he didn’t mind keeping: they never whined for food and didn’t require a litter box. They also didn’t wake you up at night by...

Fate might forgive greed, or gluttony, or even bloodlust, but it never ignores being ignored.

I was a modern young woman, fearless and capable (with mace spray in my robe’s right pocket), and I didn’t care who knew it. Attitude was everything when dealing with dwarfs.

Sometimes, I wondered if I might speed up his words by grabbing his wrists and finishing his gestures for him.