Malbec, he thought drunkenly, staring blankly at the label sitting on the center of the table, his mind unspooling like coarse thread. Malbec was an interesting word. He didn’t think it was very good wine, but he wasn’t going to hold that against the varietal. He wasn’t even sure that he knew a...
I had intended for them to spar with each other to work out their differences, not this fiasco. You know better,” Michael said firmly, “and I want an explanation.” Mitsuru looked up from her soup, annoyed. “How did you hear about that already?” She sighed and dropped her spoon back in the bowl. “...
“What now?” “Well, we’ve made our introductions, and seen to the help. Why don’t we go and have a little heart to heart with the owners of the place?” Alice swept her eyes across the charred rubble and scattered corpses where the surrounding warehouses had been. In front of them, the massiv...
Warm and fragrant darkness in the bedroom, hands moving as if disembodied, driven by their own volition. The smallest kind of betrayal, the wind that dries her cheeks and stings her eyes. Jenny’s cigarette lighter gave Yael enough light to crawl through the door of the concealed tent. Yael f...