And stepped into the past. I've been here, thought Sarah Tyrell. The smell of ocean water, the salt of invisible tears, drifted through the canned atmosphere. A snake of water, a leak curling underneath one of the rubber-flanged seals, threaded down the corridor extending ...
McNihil opened his eyes and gazed up at the charred ceiling. “I don’t need to hear the rest of it.” He rolled onto one arm, then managed to sit up, pulling himself together piece by piece. He’d heard the woman’s voice, but couldn’t tell where she was just yet. “Besides … all my dreams were incine...
Taking more pains than necessary; I know, he told himself once more, as he watched his hands going through routine. Mind working on two levels about the subject. On top, right up against curve of skull, the old subvocal litany: Careful; have to be careful; weren’t born out here like some of them;...
'What are you looking so pissed about?' Vogel had gotten up from his wingchair to switch off the film projector and relight the candles on the stand he'd brought into the private theater. The bright, empty rectangle disappeared from the screen. 'It wasn't that bad a movie.' 'It was okay, I guess....
He offered to drop me off at the Hilton, where Falcon and his wife had checked in. Instead, I asked him to take me back to my apartment, so I could look in on my brother Donnie. Then I could take my motorcycle over to the hotel. “What about the Lincoln?” I looked over at Earl as he pulled over t...
Dower Receives the Brunt of a Scalding Wrath SO you . . . are the person who has caused such an uproar.” Given the great rumbling and shattering of the building’s firmament that had accompanied Mrs. Fletcher’s arrival, I had expected a deeper, more profound pitch to her voice. In this, I was disa...
He spoke with deep, absolute conviction, as though passing judgment on the kind of criminal that other criminals were likely to beat the tar out of. “The absolute worst.” “Mmf?” Sherri looked over at him from where she stood at the bathroom sink, toothbrush in mouth. A white dab of foam showed wh...
SIXTEEN That spooky Mike guy had gone striding up into the hills, off on Christ knew what kind of errand. Doot had peeked around the corner of the clinic building and watched him go. Something wild was going on around here-the guy sure wasn't all fucked up and half paralyzed now. He went...
I didn’t have a choice. Think about it. If I didn’t go back to the warehouse and team up with Cole again, that would’ve meant I was still that other Kim, that Little Nerd Accountant Girl I used to be. Which would’ve meant that Cole was right about me. I wasn’t hard enough. I didn’t have what it ...