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I knew we were going somewhere I didn’t have any interest in going, because I was wearing a tie and jacket.
Crackpot Palace (2012)
“You gotta watch that anger. The customer’s always right,” said Merk.
“The customer’s hardly ever right,” said Slackwell.
The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories (2002)
She had her sights set on being an English major. Owen admired the quixotic nature of her plan, its blatant impracticality, its vow of poverty.
Out of Body (2020)
People did sometimes leave town, though. Because no one knew where they went didn’t necessarily mean they’d been abducted, killed, and drained by a vampire.
Out of Body (2020)
A slight grin that has nothing to do with merriment is the sure sign that she is about to set things straight. Her overall air is one of constant suspicion, and ever readiness to take offense.
The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories (2002)
The wind and sun, the salt water, the hard work aged a body rapidly, and when I would look at the old man who clammed, I was too young to sense the wisdom their years on the water had bestowed upon them and saw only what I did not want to become.
The Empire of Ice Cream (2006)
“Do you remember what you wished for?” asked Stan.
“Only the one of them. I must have been ten or eleven.”
“Did it come true?” asked Groot.
“Hell no, I wished I’d never get old,” said Venner.
Crackpot Palace (2012)
In their exquisite self-centeredness our ancestors believed that they were alone in the universe. At the same time, they had convinced themselves that Earth was the blue apple of God’s eye and the sole reason for all of creation. This two-headed fallacy caused humanity both delusions of grandeur and a paranoiac sense of loneliness.
The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories (2002)
The seventh expression was a blend of the look of a hungry child, the gaze of an angry ball, and the stern countenance of God. The report records that the creators were questioned as to how they came up with the countenance of God, and their famous response was, “We used a mirror.”
Crackpot Palace (2012)