I spent a lot of time in a half-dreaming fog, like what I felt the mornings after a full moon, waking up and trying to fit back in my human skin. I lay on something cold and hard, and thought that couldn’t be right, I was supposed to be home, there was supposed to be coffee, I needed a shower, bu...
“C’mon, Robin, please? The doc’ll never know. I never get any treats.” “Sorry, Jones,” Robin said to the dust-colored mutt in the steel and Plexiglas cell. “Please? Please please please?” Jones’s tail wagged the entire back end of his body. “No, Jones. Sorry.” “But it’s not fair. Those guys get f...
I’d record as many interviews as I could through the afternoon and into the evening, assuming I could convince any vampires to show up, which I hadn’t been able to do yet. Ned and Emma said no, I didn’t know how to get in touch with Marid, Mercedes was out of the question, and the few others I sa...
If she lost consciousness in the course of a kidnapping, she woke up either tied to a chair or strapped to a sleek metal table that was part of some fearsome device of unknown purpose. The chair was always better, because it meant she was dealing with ordinary criminals with ordinary motivations ...