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in a parade, and I'd already seen Ranger naked but he was worth

I want you to leave the guns in the car." "These are Trekkies we're dealing with. They could put the Vulcan death grip on us.

Deedee is really very sweet," he whispered.

Every two feet there seemed be another Leonidas chocolate café, the Starbucks of Belgium. The Leonidas cafés were inescapable, so she surrendered and got herself a hot chocolate.

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Ranger was slouched on the couch, watching a ball game. Bob was beside him, his big shaggy orange Bob head resting on Ranger's leg.

Vinnie slammed his door shut, and Lula stuck

years old and widowed. No children. He'd sold his insurance business

I can hear her release the safety on her Glock

Personally, I thought we were in big trouble if I was the one standing between the world's population and hell.

Connie handed me the check and plucked at a clump of mascara hanging at the end of her left eyelash. "I'm telling you, it's fucking hard to be classy," she said.

Lula backed out after you. I don't like to speak bad about anyone, but it wasn't a pretty sight. It was like Winnie the Pooh getting stuck in the rabbit hole, if Winnie the Pooh was wearing a red thong.

You're his what?" "Amanuensis.

padded leather back. "Mo

ou know there was a time when I'd say to myself… How does she do it? How does she get mixed up with these weirdos? But now I don't even question it. In fact, I've come to expect such things of you.

looked at my watch. Damn. Too early to quit work and start drinking.

her scruffy innoscense to impregnate with his dreams. reason was seductive, it gave the appearance of truth

My mother was not herself in the time of the Santa Anas. I was twelve years old and I was afraid for her.

This dumb show of privilege—the quartet, the stylized flowers of stained glass, the illumination of the skylights. Yet it was beautiful. Did beauty have to be shameful? I wished there was someone I could ask.

That was Ingrid Magnussen. She made up rules and suddenly they were engraved on the Rosetta Stone, they'd been brought to the surface from a cave under the Dead Sea, they were inscribed on scrolls from the T'ang Dynasty.

On the anvil of August, the city lay paralyzed, stunned into stupidity by the heat.

her magenta lips a wolf's stained smile.

Reverend Thomas said that in hell, the sinners were indifferent to the suffering of others, it was part of damnation. I hadn't understood that until now.

Reverend Thomas said that in hell, the sinners were indifferent to the suffering of others, it was part of damnation. I hadn't understood that until now. She