The three of them were marching side by side, the little doctor in the middle, along the glass-enclosed walkway which connected the central, ten-storey solar-glass pyramid with the biochemical laboratories where they were headed, and which were housed in the separate, sealed-off, four-storey cube...
'Shall I lay out your clothes for tomorrow, sir?' Gerard asked. 'Hm . . .' Ram considered the question for a moment before answering. 'Not tonight, Gerard.' Tomorrow and the next day were to be very special, and he would choose his attire very carefully. For the preview and the auction, he would ...
It was early Friday evening and Seattle Bean on Second Avenue— one of some eight dozen coffee bars which had mushroomed, seemingly overnight, all over Manhattan—was filled with a young, outdoorsy- looking crowd. "The coffee happened," Kenzie said. "They served shit." "Yeah, but this? Seattle's re...
Outrageously expensive. And ugly. Monstrously ugly. Or so the young man thought as he pulled up to the curb in his outrageously expensive but tasteful car. He sat on the buttery soft leather upholstery for a moment, studying the offensive edifice. He didn't think he'd ever seen so much money put ...
She stared accusingly at the earphone in her hand. Despite her disgust, she carefully replaced the earphone on its hook. She had been tempted to drop the useless instrument and kick it across the room, enjoying a perverse pleasure in seeing it shatter, just as she had been tempted to leave the po...
The scraping of cutlery against china rang out noisily in the dining room; from one corner came the scratchy music issuing forth from the Victrola Elender had set up. It was dinner hour at the Good Eats Café, and every table was occupied. Elizabeth-Anne placed a plate in front of Sheriff Parker a...