We must have thought she'd be a good choice. We should have checked her out first. We should have spent a few hours with her to see how it was going to be, spending the whole summer shut up here in the middle of nowhere. We'd have seen in half a day how soon we'd tire of her smiling. Nobody smile...
His platform was suspended only a few dozen feet above the mass of human hair, plastic bags, shredded cardboard and other detritus. He squinted at a distant mountain of crushed cars, hoping that Benny was about to appear with his load of human corpses. He had been gone for five days; Aldram’s ass...
Harvey found the Snorklepine in an ancient wooden chest that was about the size and shape of the ottoman her youngest took with him to college.It had been curled up under a neatly folded Union Jack, frayed and tattered at the edges, large enough to cover a casket. Old photographs: a young lancer,...