You smiled then, and your whole face changed with it. It kind of lit up, like there were sunbeams coming from inside you.

Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.

She told me to wait,that I was going to lose a finger.” Earl looked toward the kitchen and back at Ty and Duece. He snorted. “I asked her, did she think I was stupid? Then...

Before I could turn to look up, a voice boomed from the heavens: “What the heck is going on down there?

Marines either know how to use an iron or they get married […]. The iron is less dangerous.

And it’s hard to hate someone once you understand them.