There are few things I like better in life than getting lost in a good book.
Too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash.
I’m concerned. He witnessed something awful, and he might be in shock.
The truth was that, at the age of thirty-six, Lacy was content to live alone, to sleep in the center of the bed, to clean up only after herself, to make and spend her own money, to come and go as she pleased, to pursue her career without worrying about his, to plan her evenings with input from no one else, to cook or not to cook, and to have sole possession of the remote control.
For her, the holidays began in late October and steadily gathered momentum until the big bang, a ten-hour marathon on Christmas Day with four meals and a packed house.
I did manage to ditch my prologue add quotation marks to my dialogue, take out the big words, and I would have cut some more but there’s not enough to cut.
This is a game for me, and you have to admit I play it rather well.
Mine was the only white face in the crowded restaurant, but I was coming to terms with my whiteness. No one had tried to murder me yet. No one seemed to care.
God help us, if ever in this great country we turn our heads while people who have not had fair trials are executed. That almost happened in this case.
The bloodstain expert who testified against Quincy was a former Denver homicide detective named Paul Norwood. After working crime scenes for a few years, he had decided to.
It had been tested extensively in clinical trials in third-world countries;.
Just observe the billboards along any busy Florida highway and you’ll almost wish you could get injured.
Humans are mammals and their red blood cells are similar in that they do not have nuclei. Reptiles and birds have nucleated red blood cells, we do.
What a family,” he said softly.
On the console between us is a 9-millimeter Glock, properly purchased and registered by him.
Frankie’s face never reveals much. His eyes seldom blink, his voice is steady and flat as if he’s measuring every word. Survival in prison required a poker face. Long stretches of solitude were common. “Are you sure?” he asks. It’s obvious he has doubts about Seabrook.
The system reflects society. It’s not always fair, but it’s as fair as the system in New York, or Massachusetts, or California. It’s as fair as biased, emotional humans can make it.
You’re a funny man, Post.
Once again, I am thankful that alcohol is not my temptation.
I had a long night, too much to drink, too much to eat, a rather nasty cigar, and I slept on the porch like a dead man until a really big cat pounced on my chest at three in the morning and scared the hell out of me. How was I to know it was his rocker?