Nothing says "deeply in mourning" like canapés and free beer.

Don't think she can breathe over there, chief." drawled Shaun. "Pretty sure she hasn't kicked the oxygen habit yet.

I wanted the truth, and I wanted the news, and I'd be damned before I settled for anything less.

Hysteria takes too much energy to be maintained forever.

Whoever authorized the evolution of the spiders of Australia should be summarily dragged out into the street and shot.

...although I had to admit a certain affection for the Mattel booth advertising Urban Survival Barbie, now with her own Machete and blood testing unit.

If we didn't fear the truths we didn't hear, we'd lose the need to fear the ones we did.