I was such a messed up person and he was still holding on.

Simon’s brain tried to comprehend the situation. ‘Was an international supermodel really holding Doc Gutson, leader of the infamous Bloodworth Gang, captive?

One wrong move, one bad rumor, one mistake, and it’s social death row. I’m the latest to be sentenced. Move out of the way, everyone. Dead girl walking. -Riley

Hustling sex for cash ain’t dangerous if you learn the tricks quick, and that means puttin’ yourself in a different mindset. Always scout for an exit for when you need it. Act confident and tough...

SWAT? For me?” Still trembling, one hand clung to the ambulance gurney, the other held a massive sterilised cotton wool wad under my nose.”Tactical Support was busy. You got Dennis and Arlo,” said Harry, speed-reading...

I closed the door and sank into my desk chair. My heart was pounding even harder. I felt like someone who had just staggered out of her car after an accident on a freeway. This...

I’ve always said women are vicious creatures – Detective Zach Grimes

The attack came without warning, in the pre-dawn stillness on the day they were due to leave. A series of solid concussions shook the walls and sent Simon scrambling from his bunk. Max thrust a...

You gotta fish or cut bait,man.This has gone on long enough. You’re playing with fire, every damn time you walk in this bar.

We are born. We die. Somewhere in between we live. And how we live is up to us. That’s it.

Her voice was small and distant, like she’d already left the room.

The Determination Gene”.

Diamond heists, romance & intrigue feature in Stella di Mare.

but true love goes far deeper than that. It is an unexplainable connection of the heart, one that endures triumph and tragedy, pain and suffering, obstacles and loss. It is something that is either present...

inherited by the world,interconnected by the youth;Mind,Body,Spirit.Believe in it

…it is my belief that all of us suffer from some kind of mental instability. What would you say if I told you we all are a little crazy?

The assholes are always puzzled when the order of the universe is restored, when they are held accountable for their cowardly, pretentious, loveless ways.

A quick thought shot through my mind. Could I really drown in a dream? I remembered the movie the Matrix. If you died in the matrix, you died in real life. I wasn’t about to...

Love or hate my work. I write not to impress. It’s just in me to give.

The two smallest boys were cut down first, bodies bounding in different directions as they were shot from opposite sides of the field, like pinballs caught in a tight corner.

Galton was a world renowned anthropologist back in the nineteenth century, though he was a big overshadowed by his cousin, Charles Darwin.

Just sit down and write! Me circa 2009

The men were smashing windows and aiming their weapons through them. The driver had opened the door and was shouting for the women and children to get out and run and hide. But Ilina realized...

Because of course, for every revelation of weakness, there had to be an equal and opposite show of strength.

My life is hard. No one would rob me of that. The clothes I am wearing came out of a knotted up black plastic trash bag from a resale shop downtown. And not the downtown...

It was in Cleveland that Magic Slim became the most successful pornographic film producer in America. His training center was a key link in a human trafficking supply chain stretching from the former Soviet Republics...

You told a half-truth. They’ll say you lie twice when you tell the other half.

What is a monster? Something that grows hair all over and howls? Could be. But the real monster is within, and when it comes out, it’s as fugly as you see it, or as it...

He had no problem with flies or bugs or beetles, even creepy ones like earwigs and cockroaches…Six legs were fine, but eight were alien and unnatural.’The same number of legs as four fully-grown serial killers!

I needed to know, Jesse. I needed to get inside his head. To find this son of a bitch, I need to get inside his head.” – Stephanie Carovella

There’s nothing worse than delivering bad news to women. I hoped I wouldn’t get good at it.

I’ve said my friend, not once, but twice, never trust a preety girl cause darkness waits a mile behind her smile!!

That job is like unprotected sex. It feels amazing at the time, but there is a good chance you will pay for it later. None of the benefits are worth the pleasure.

You’re being stupid again. Trusting in what they say.” Disdain dripped from his words like pus from an infected wound.

Sometimes the hardest journeys are the ones that begin with little hope. But we need to take them anyway.

I stumble across the sea of tarmac, finding pavement, concealment and a brick wall. Palms brace against the scrubby surface. My stomach churns and then bubbles over, burning my throat as acrid yellow acid spills...

Hard work is great. It buys you more tickets to the luck lottery.

She smiled as though someone had just offered her, the oldest virgin in town, a fully functioning Kingsize Vibro vibrator and a deluxe inhibition bypass.

The Peacemaker Colt has now been in production, without change in design, for a century. Buy one to-day and it would be indistinguishable from the one Wyatt Earp wore when he was the Marshal of...

The most amazing mechanism in the known universe is the human brain; it takes in information all the time then uses it, all of which is happening, of course, without human knowledge. Typical…

There is nothing so sexy as a good-looking man in a good-looking pair of shorts.

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...