They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.

Did you hear? You are free." Yessss. Choice. It is a fine thing. And I choose to take you back, Most High.

So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.

I am dying a thousand cruel and unusual deaths as fifty pairs of eyes take me in, size me up like something that should be hanging over a fireplace in a gentleman's den.

With each shimmy, the bugle beads on their scandalously revealing costumes swung and shook. It was the sort of display Evie knew her mother would have found appalling—an example of the moral decay of the young generation. It was sexual and dangerous and thrilling, and Evie wanted more of it.

Do you think they missed him terribly when he fell? Did God cry over his lost angel, I wonder?

Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.