Cops before breakfast.Before coffee even. As if Mondays weren't bad enough.

Then, like a born and bred asshole, he added to the sheriff, "He writes murder mysteries.

I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it.

Knowing and believing are two different things.

People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.

And why is it the best looking ones are always straight?

I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick your ears.