Joe Hardy was having a bad day ( Read more... )

Going off the meds had been a painfully slow process. It didn't seem to matter that he'd stopped taking them cold turkey (he'd run out, and there wasn't really any way to get more without risking exposure). In fact, that probably had made the process of going clean that much worse ( Read more... )

High in a sixteenth story window on the outskirts of Tifton, a feather pillow was being fluffed in the early evening air. So vigorously was it shaken that the delicate cotton caught against the iron rung of the balcony and tore, spilling its contents into the teeming street below ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, Benton Fraser took a sweet young thing named Apple home. Unfortunately, Ray comes to discover that Fraser's new friend is actually a killer, and they go together to arrest her.

Some time later, Benton Fraser comes upon Tony in the middle of a kill. After a brief scuffle, Fraser manages to apprehend Tony and carry him to the ( Read more... )

On de corner of de street dere a box an' she stand on the box in she finery and she speak. She sing. She prophesies"Mend your ways, Children of Siam," she say, with her arm lifted over her head and her smiling mouth. "It is not too late to mend your ways. Heed de word of de great Wo-man in de sky an' she will bring you peace an' solace ( Read more... )

Life tends to progress in cycles. Life and death. The rise and fall of a civilization. Fashion trends. Politics. And music ( Read more... )

No bruises tonight, no bumps either. The only thing Logan was sporting was a single bright red burn on the palm of his hand. A cigar burn, pretty bad one too, but Logan had done his best to clean it before wrapping it sloppily and heading out into the night ( Read more... )

It was easy ( Read more... )

It was pandemonium ( Read more... )

That night, there are thousands down in the tunnels. Crawling like ants. Worker ants, on and off the trains, single file, clustered together, moving as one. Each one completely oblivious of the others. Nearly 10pm and it was rush hour on the Miranda Subway ( Read more... )