While I’d anticipated how challenging the dissection of Verona’s body would be on a psychological level, I hadn’t guessed how physically taxing it would be. My fingers and forearms ached, and I couldn’t wait to get them some rest—but not before washing them. I had enough dried blood, skin, and bi...
Many of the trees had already lost their leaves, so the walk wasn’t quite as striking as it might’ve been a couple weeks prior with the park’s canopy ablaze in reds, oranges, and yellows. Not that I cared. In the aftermath of my introduction to Agent Sweetcheeks, my mind had retreated into the da...
I said to Carl, as we hit a bump that sent me a good two centimeters into the air. “I knew these unBrained hippies were anti-technology, but pavement? Really? I thought they drew the line at electronics.”The jostling didn’t bother Carl, but he didn’t have various fluid-filled organs inside of him...
Centenarian oaks and pines lined the property, set inside an eight-foot perimeter wall constructed of pale gray granite slabs that each must’ve weighted as much as one of Mr. Bock’s patented reciprocating engines. The towering wrought iron gates at the front of the property stood open, admitting ...
Not that I really needed to make that assertion. Rodgers and Quinto had let me lead the way on this one—it was Shay and I’s case after all, and they weren’t as familiar with it as we were—and Steele didn’t want to step on my toes in regards to Gregg. I think she understood how much the Rex Winter...
Light trickled through the Captain’s windows and wormed its way my direction before crashing into the back of the corkboard, which cast a shadow across Steele’s desk that had doubled in length in the past fifteen minutes. Shay’s shearling coat draped the back of her chair,...