I’m going to take off your gag.And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I’ll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can....

He let out a hiss of pain,then smiled that crooked, sheepish smile he always fell back on when he was caught doing something bad. “Sorry. I-I didn’t mean to. I just- I’ve been lying here...

His wax-white skin was cool to the touch when she brushed his neck to find the knot of cloth. She’d never been this close to a vampire,never realized what it would be like to be...

Tana would sit near the door to the basement with fingers in her ears, tears and snot running down her face as she cried and cried and cried. And little Pearl would toddle up, crying,...

You’re yourself,” Tana said, grinning. “More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can’t see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.

Her screams spiraled up into the night air

He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as...