short-story

It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.

The mind is a thing capable of destroying itself when deep grief sets in, and when left alone to muse over one__ misery, the most irreparable damage can be done. You need people to heal.

On the outside, I 'm a husband and a father to three sons. I end to keep quiet and stay to myself. That way I stay out of trouble as much as possible. Some people say I'm almost too quiet but it's like that saying goes, it's the quiet ones you have to watch out for...

Even if I had convict ancestry, I wouldn__ be ashamed of it. As far as I__ concerned, the real criminals back in those days weren__ twelve-year-old boys nicking a loaf of bread or a pair of socks to ward off hunger and blisters. No, it was those who exploited them; keeping the battler in the gutter while they sat around in their manors, sipping tea and admiring portraits of their toffee-nosed great grandfathers.

Just how good are you?__e kissed her. ____l let you be the judge of that.

Oh no. I'm not gonna let you leave yet. I'm gonna show you the value of takin' your time to get to work. I probably should have done this a long time ago.

In some mystical way, Lenny seemed to ennoble work more than anyone I had ever met"Also in "Stories and Scripts:an Anthology

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one...

I gulped, mesmerized by his hypnotic eyes and charming, spearmint smile, and uttered something intelligent like,"Uh, huh." ~ from Dragon Flight

The smiting and righteous retribution happens less often than you would think - Hades

I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

Sadly enough, sometimes you and Lenny are the only real human interactions that I have all day. The rest of the day I'm just like a machine that mechnically computes and producesAlso in "Stories and Scripts:An Anthology

Between the sands of time and tradition is a multitude of truths untold.

He'd done this hundreds of times: done a job, been drugged with a narcotic that erased his short term memory, and dumped in a seedy hole in the wall locale, where when he climbed out, he would have to figure out where he was, find a payphone, and call in for his next job.

You are the only thing I've ever needed. The only treasure that matters.- Seamus Tierney

Gods, the love that saturated the room was so potent that Arabella couldn't breathe.This was what she wanted. Someone who wouldn't let go, someone who would love her so much he'd wait decades to be reunited with her.

We did not go about this bride thing right. I do not think women are still used to being stolen as they once were.___ome adjustment is to be expected.___t is more than that. She keeps asking for things that I do not have__er Earth clothes and something called a cheeseburger, which I recall from the mini shows as being a giant food that women enjoy eating half naked very slowly._ Kyran thought of Eve__ beautiful legs. He would very much enjoy getting her a cheeseburger

I won__ have you calling me Miss Tuttle. That__ what the doc calls me. And the lady at the bank. One takes my temperature and the other my money. Friends don__ take anything__hey give.