Hey, boss. Where are you?” she asked. “I just picked up something to eat. What about professional belly dancers?” “Um, I don’t know, maybe with horseradish.

I love language, words, and all the lovely, exciting, and heart wrenching things you can do with them. Pick the right ones, put them in the right order, and you’ve created a moment in time where the reader forgets about the late car payment, the dirty dishes, the impending workweek. You have created a state of bliss. Or negligence, depending on your perspective.

You rented the apartment with a dead guy in the corner?” I shrugged. “I wanted the apartment, and I figured I could cover him up with a bookcase or something.

You know you have ADD when Look A chicken - T-shirt

I may not have any skeletons in my closet, but I do have a little box of souls in my sock drawer. —T-SHIRT

I sort of got off on making bad guys sweat. Which was not unlike my love of making good guys sweat, just by very different means.

I had a horrible feeling my leg was broken. If it wasn’t, it had a lot of explaining to do.