But I’d barely gotten any sleep, last night. And hadn’t eaten a bite since yesterday afternoon. I stopped for a waffle on the way home, at the diner that I’ve regularly used since hers closed down. The staff all knew me, and were friendly enough. They noticed how drawn I l...
So far as I could tell, she was dressed pretty much the same way as she had been on the riverbank. Except a silvery flash of buckles told me that she’d put her boots back on. She must have gone back home before she’d headed off in this direction. That was where she’d left ...
He was freezing cold and shaking, even worse than he had been the last couple of days. And his eyes kept blurring over so that he could barely focus on the road. Thank heavens, at this early hour, there was practically no one about and the streets were clear of traffic. Go...
By an outsider, no less! In front of her own friends! In her own town! In front of Ross! Cassie had been bristling like a porcupine all morning, ever since she’d got back from Maynard Street. She was in such a foul mood, in fact, that Cleveland—her big tabby cat—had been avoiding her completely, ...
And then Lehman Willets found himself standing on a level plain of brilliantly gleaming whiteness that stretched out for incredible distances around him. He waited for his vision to adjust. But there was no perceptible horizon that he could discern, however fiercely he peered. &...