Puerto Rico was the Republic of Texas on jet-fuel testosterone and psychedelic estrogen.

Death lurked everywhere. Death was alive and well.

I look away, but we’ve caught each other. And I know this wasn’t just a ghost story to him, even if it was to the others.

This house is haunted.

One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture; A pale blue eye with a film over it.

Thanks, but no thanks. I need my makeup honey. – Carol

I am Not a Pirate, I merely watch movies and delete them. Never store them on my computer.

The lights flickered, the pain went away, and her mother was holding her, singing ‘Sleep sweet sleep’. (The Children of Ankh series) Kim Cormack

On the TV he found cartoons and movies, music videos and game shows, repeat broadcasts and reruns, but there was nothing current, and no news. Many channels were just blank, or displayed brightly coloured test...

Wanna become a Billionaire…?Try to become a ‘Thrillonare’ first

But I was still determined to protect her. It might be the one good thing I would ever do in my life. I wondered if God would even notice.

Professor Khupe felt his chest swell with pride. It was doing so without his encouragement. If an electrical fault had stopped the elevator from rising, his inflating ego would have powered the remainder of their...

The reflex of fear was soon replaced with another, more useful emotion.Rage.

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.Romans 12:19King James Version What most people don’t seem to understand is...

For several moments, Mary couldn’t hear anything over the violent pounding of her pulse.

“One cannot be a mother without first being a person; family, husband, and children should not be allowed, as is so often the case, to steal a woman’s selfhood and her dreams.” Mother to Sherlock,...

We’re trying to rebuild society, not plunge it back into chaos.” – character quote

Everything is red, freakin pink, and all heartsy. Everywhere! It’s driving me insane!

Revenge hardly mends anything. The son of a bitch you want to crush does not exist. The son of a bitch is your own self.

It was one thing to talk about ghosts, quite another to have them messing around with things in the physical world.

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

If my life were a movie … the title sequence would start out like a typical high school story, but then reveal that something’s amiss. There’d be a tight shot, or piece of dialogue, or...

So I guess this works out good.

Then headed for the kitchen.Fuck.I headed through the lounge……just as two indistinct pitch-black masses, Kevlar laden, shotguns raised, crept ninja-like through the front door. This time, I didn’t even get a bellowed warning. The lead...

I studied his face, and as I did, I realized that he was studying me, our thoughts tangling in mid-air for a moment.

Whose Daddy’s Little Girl Now?

He realised he was in a chair. The world was white and blurry in half his vision, and it took him a few moments to realise a sheet of paper was stuck to his face.

There is a moment of sheer panic when I realize that Paul’s apartment overlooks the park… and is obviously more expensive than mine.

This place is Hell’s waiting room.

For an instant I saw before me the young girl this used to be.

Mr. Gweta and his daughter were the cosmetics camouflaging an infected blackhead. The rest of the ugliness ran deep into a world where plants ate people and botanists lay at the bottom of the food...

Spooky things, people, places, scents and sounds together or alone can create a powerful adrenalin rush and it floods the senses.

Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.

After everything I’ve been through, the last thing I’m going to apologize for is my paranoia.

. . .but he’d seen elite warriors go down in flames enough times to struggle with the sovereignty of God yet yield to it

If I don’t defend for myself, who will?

I had finally become aware of how much I was capable of, how little I had to lose, and how deep into Douglas’s soft sand I had sunk. Magellan’s letters, which Douglas had recited, had...

He grinned, a very dark and evil grin… the kind of grin that the Grinch had before he stole Christmas.

Oh but it is Mr Bernstein, it is the ultimate game. And, once you take this folder you will have precisely 14 days in which to decide whether or not you would like to play.

I’ve learned that the most unbelievable is the most believable.

Getting out of tight jams was his specialty.

Mengapa ketika manusia diberi sedikit kekuasaan, dia akan mempergunakan lebih dari seharusnya?

The door suddenly opened. A leggy young brunette took two steps into the office and stopped short. Her brown eyes widened, she hastily excused herself and turned to leave. Pérez’s jaw dropped as he looked...

So that was where we were in our relationship.Derwent’s scale ran all the way from wouldn’t piss-on-you-if-you-were-on-fire to would-kill-for-you-no-need-to-ask-twice. I was quite glad to be somewhere near the middle.

Viktor, what?

Xander Stryker.” A thick, rich voice filled the hall. The speaker stopped at the altar, standing in a blue robe. His thick brown hair was slicked back and tied in a small ponytail in the...

I thought part of the idea of having therapy was putting one in touch with his or her feelings. And don’t give me all that about transference, and counter-transference and all that. I know what...

Don’t waste your breath/trying to escape/if a pure love you don’t have/no one will be saved.

He reached the ground floor and flung the door open, fleeing into the street. He glanced back and saw that she wasn’t following, so he slowed to a halt. His pulse raced. The entranceway was...

Conchar is an ancient Gaelic term for those who admire the king of all hunters: the wolf.To some, the wolf is a magnificent beast, the pinnacle of predatory evolution. To others, the wolf is a...