All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Chapter 1 Juliet Henry reflected that, with the unpleasantness of modern-day security measures, everyone knew going in that the airport was no longer the place for starting a ...
It was very narrow and claustrophobic inside and I declined to go all the way to the top, knowing it would provoke my vertigo. The clouds were gathering as we headed back for Little Goose and we had to work our way through the returning fishing boats. Everyone stared and nodded at me and most wav...
It began with choking which threatened to wake me. My nose filled up with the putrid smell of things rotting on the shore and made me gag. Aware that my body was still in bed, I was also standing on the low side of the island, just beyond the reach of the surf. It was dark, but the moon was full ...
We’d have been in sooner but had stopped to talk to the Bones about Brian’s potential contagious state. The Bones wasn’t worried, but he was also pretty drunk, so I was only marginally reassured by our conversation and his belief that Brian’s corpse wasn’t a germ factory for a bioengineered plagu...
I have set them on watches for the Dog, the First and the Mid. My wife insisted that we do not ring the bell to avoid rousing those who sleep, but I wake in time for every eight bell and walk the house to see for myself that all is well. —from the unbound journal of Halfbeard We took more pictu...
Mary whispered. I was glad she stopped there. Our wine-soaked brains couldn’t absorb any more. I’m sure Brandy struck everyone as being an airheaded material girl rather than someone more imaginative and spiritual. But whatever she had seen that night had shaken her to her bones and filled her wi...