Barrons: "He got upset it wouldn't shut up and tore its head off." Mac: "The child?" I gasped

His coworker was velvety-skinned, a sexy boy-on-the-cusp-of man.

Have you ever had one of those moments when time just freezes? You know, when the world suddenly goes deathly still, and you could hear a pin drop, and the squishing sound your heart makes is so loud in your ears you feel like youre drowning in blood, and you stand there in that suspended moment and die a thousand deaths, but not really, and the moment passes and dumps you out on the other side of it, with your mouth hanging open, and an erased blackboard where your mind used to be?

Keeping vigil over her are two monsters of very different breeds but monster just the same. Death on her left. Devil on her right.

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.

Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did.

When did having a life become an event you had to schedule?