What do you mean, my life is at risk?” I questioned. “From one of the other professors?””Oh, it goes much deeper than that, Freddy,” he said with a half crazed, wide eyed smile. Leaning in,...

Birds chirped and hawked in the distance. A group of them, maybe vultures, circled the sky. Rae glanced at the blanket. Those damn birds could probably smell Marissa, and the second everyone left, they’d pounce...

Henry was now very annoyed; he had dug himself into a hole so deep that they didn’t make a rope long enough.

You’ll be pretty again, I promise.

Marisa starts to snoop. I might as well too. It’s not often that I get to visit a water pellet company in a freaky refugee nation. -from Fireseed One

Knowing too much had turned him into something else, and he wasn’t sure he liked this newer him, although he felt he could not stop being this other him, darker.

Unintended jealousy is merciless.

Who the hell you think would be answering his phone?” I snarled.

What is your secret? What could you possibly know, more than 80 years after you death, that someone doesn’t want us to find out?

There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can’t you?It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.

The purpose of having the orphans study all these diverse fields was not for them to just become geniuses, but to become polymaths – meaning they would be geniuses in a wide variety of fields.

Another misconception is that desires are insatiable. Admittedly, for the small segment of society that is clinically deranged, this statement may not hold true. But for those seeking riches, pleasure, or power, too much of...

I came, I saw, I copied, and I left

Mark had a better chance interpreting body language at Madame Tussauds.

But as Max tugged him out the door a different feeling stole over him, something strange, behind the regret, deeper than the mourning. It wasn’t until much later that he was able to identify it.Excitment.

The Gobi wasn’t completely devoid of life; its ecosystem was unexpectedly extensive and varied given the extremes to which it subjected its denizens, but some of those forms of life weren’t the kind that Anna...

What I learned in this tragedy was the eternal lesson of good people going bad.

His eyes were like two wafers of slate, grey and lifeless.

Further north, I met a Siberian hermit who lived in the foothills of the Ural Mountains. His life’s passion was wrestling black bears … in the nude (him not the bears). He did not know...

ALWAYS KEEP YOUR DREAMS ALIVE

I wish I could claim that I said this being an author, but alas I did not.” –I try to leave out the parts that people skip. — Elmore Leonard

The terror is trapped inside of him and paralyzes him. He closes his eyes again and tries to drown out the scream – but it keeps ringing and ringing and ringing in his ears.

I nodded. I was ready. In fact I was so ready that if he didn’t do something soon, if he didn’t touch me in the next five seconds, it was very possible I might die....

It was a dark, dismal afternoon, like they all seem to bethese days, when I got this call. I could hear the rainbattering the windowpane of my office when the phone rang.

No evil ever came from a woman’s womb that wasn’t placed there first by a man.’… Tantie Neptune, Lucifer’s Key by Charles A. Cornell, due 2013

I do not possess the ability to draw or paint.I can’t sing or dance.I can’t knit or sew. But I am an artist. I have the ability to put onto paper, words that tell an...

This was a part he didn’t like. It made him feel like a jailer, or a kidnapper.”Another sin, another string of Hail Marys,” he said, sitting on the edge of the bed. So much was...

WEST SALEM ~ October 2011A sudden vision, fraught with malevolence and darkness, obscured her sight. The face of a menacing figure turned from the shadows of his grisly handiwork and stared at Sorcha.Her muscles tensed....

Ah ha!” the Doc screeched suddenly, wheeling around. “The salicylic acid! Maybe it SHOULD have been heated first!

How easy would it be to let the words uncurl from my tongue and glide slowly into the space between us? Let them light up the room in bright-orange neon: Here’s your answer! Here’s what...

It takes a certain kind of man willing to work long, grueling hours in a career offering few rewards.

Apparently, we’re all in the frame,” I heard Harry murmur somewhere behind me. And I whirled back to him. Innate, irrational anger surged. Then stopped, dead – as I suddenly took in Handsome, Robert and...

She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are right, and the evidence of this potential is found in...

Regress towards progress – Dr Wannamaker

Well, whatever happened here today…’ he said, turning back to Popescu and donning his own sunglasses so he could discreetly cast his gaze over her figure,’…it was only the beginning.

And, like him, she’s going to get herself killed.” – Gena Evans, Nowhere to Run

When I lifted up the skin, a fat kidney worm dripping with gore raised its bald, blind head and glared at me.

I don’t know why I told you all those things, but I did. Maybe it was because I’m a drunk, and sometimes drunks like to confess.

… the only difference between carnivores and plants is that the latter eat meat through ‘translator’ organisms. Maggots and bacteria ‘pre-chew’ dead animal matter, which plants then absorb as nutrients. So if eating pre-chewed food...

But he couldn’t risk taking the helmet off. It was the only thing saving him from the firing squad. He was no longer able to keep his thoughts silent. No longer able to squash his...

If you ride around with your mouth hanging open, I assume that could be a possibility.

What are we, Charlie’s Angels?

But death has taken root inside you and you know it will grow, like a cancer with a voice, from now until the day it consumes you whole.

Perfection all the time would drive them mad. For every perfect little town, there’s something ugly underneath. No dream without the nightmare.

This is what people were looking at all day? How embarrassing! I looked like Quasimodo! My guests were exceptional actors.

There was some violence a year ago. An important kid got shot during an attempted kidnapping while on spring break in Mexico. The Fortune 500 went security crazy. Now rich kids like Jack need a...

Noriega wound up like a baseball pitcher on top of the bed and hurled the small gun, but was low and outside for a ball. His tight-fitting house dress was bunched up high on his...

She cursed under her breath. Eddie watched the EBs react, the younger ones recoiling with silent gasps.”Better watch your language. There are children present. I think you’re freaking them out.””Sure, I’m the one freaking them...

At that exact moment, 6-0-0, the sun climbed over the skyline of oaks, revealing its full summer angry-god self. Its reflection flared across the river toward our house, a long, blaring finger aimed at me...

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