Many hands push and pull me to a table in the corner near a stand full of packaged chips and someone shoves my head down between my knees and people are saying: Take a deep breath! Take it easy, love. Settle down, it’ll soon pass. ...
There’s nothing but darkness and filth and noise below, bones a foot deep in every direction, everything washed red by fire. I surface, surging upright to see Ryan lunging through the flames at the lake’s edge as he drags the gleaming figure of a slack-limbed giant, wings bedraggled, up onto dry ...
He shot Janey his usual dazzling smile before jumping back into the car and roaring off up a narrow side street that was little more than a cobbled laneway. ‘Well, that’s it then,’ Janey told herself a bit forlornly as Luca’s tail-lights vanished. ‘That’s probably the last time you’ll ever see hi...
‘What are you doing here? Jesus.’ Stewart Daley’s eyes are open and there are traces of tears on his cheeks, but there’s a slackness in his features that isn’t ordinarily there. I wave one hand in front of his face as he continues to make that soft, awful sound, rocking slightly on the balls of h...
‘I can’t believe you’re still here, still in one piece.’ I’m so tired I let her lead me. ‘Still here,’ I mutter. ‘Where else would I be?’ She gives me a strange look as she turns us back towards the circular ramp that will take us back downstairs. The nightwatchmen walk us across the mosaic-tiled...
And if I die before I learn to speak Can money pay for all the days I lived awake But half asleep? Primitive Radio Gods (1996) Contents Cover Title Page Epigraph Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11...
Jordan wisely kept his silence until we reached the outskirts of the city. ‘Want me to stop the car, Sophie?’ he asked. But I managed to slide back up into a sitting position and fumbled back into my seat belt. ‘I’d just like...