Fire and Light
"Someone
knocked on the door. Sneak had finally shown up, high as the stratosphere, but
that was to be expected, I suppose, since Sneak had begun to acquire a
substantial heroin habit.
Pat
MacEnulty
Beaujolais Nouveau
"I curse
them and try to cast them out of my story! But, having no idea what's in store,
they continue to plot."
Paul
Lima
Melancholia
"He was
obviously touching some nerves. But maybe she'd been waiting for somebody to
touch those nerves. She said, ' I'd have a lobotomy if I thought it would help.'
"
Brad
Bostian
Skinhead
"The
worst case scenario could mandate the extraction of adjacent brain tissue. In
that event you might lose the benefit of certain high and low emotions..."
Reed
Hearne
The Loan
"Marie,
whose sound sense was prone to deteriorate in tight situations, had been
recently making some bad mistakes. Calling me at home in the morning was one.
Another, that I became aware of yesterday, was her attempt at stealing
ninety thousand dollars from my oldest friend, her husband."
Michael
Sato