Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.

Er-my-nee," Ron croaked unexpectedly from between them.

He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you could obscure an emotional issue by appearing to seek precision.

Both could feel the relationship crumbling to pieces beneath the weight of everything that Gavin refused to say.

Stone dead," said Howard, as though there were degrees of deadness, and the kind that Barry Fairbrother had contracted was particularly sordid.

Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.

No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.