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That evening, she kills him again. This time, she works slowly, exquisitely slowly, taking frequent
The house looked like a sand castle after the tide had come in. Except sand suggested a crumbling gr
When I see the scorpion curled under a caliche rock I picked up, my first want is to smash it like D
—Don’t go—she said. Leaning on the door frame as if she was about to fall down. I understood that sh
Something in the lab smelled like nectarine jam. I looked up from the industrial autoclave, frowning
Old Sam was dying. He had been dying for approximately twenty-seven years, by Queenie’s account. Exa
I want to be broken, to be shattered, then reshaped into something new. Something with bulletproof s
He was the kid who looked at the sun too long. He hunted for lighters like sharks hunted for blood.
I am subject to dreams, especially one of a curious type in which I wake on my back, unable to move,
There is nothing more absurdly incongruous—ironic perhaps—than the burning fear found in the hearts
The Pernille’s housekeeper shows me into the music room, where they’ve shoved the piano to the wall
It all started when Ms. Salinas told us about her third eye. It was home ec., and we were sitting in
So if there’s anyone listening at this god-awful hour, tonight’s topic is the same one as this morni
Clutch has killed somebody recently. This goes without saying. For as long as Clutch can remember, h
I’d used duct tape to attach one end of a garden hose to the exhaust pipe, and the other end of the
Gibbons swigged from his hipflask, driving one-handed as he followed the caravan of carny vehicles b
Walk continuously around a tree with an owl in it: the owl will keep its eye on you until it has wre
1. Because it would take the patience of a saint or Dalai Lama to smilingly turn the other cheek to
It had taken three days before the supervisor—“call me Marty”—asked Finn for the favour. He knew by
The crew is drowned, the ship is flayed to ribbons and splinters, and her own arms are a-rotted down
