A short story collection compiled of sci-fi and plain old regular fiction . Some stories reflect the nature in universal beings, some are just plain silly. With each story lasting just a few pages they are laid out sweet and punchy, allowing you to skip through or reread at your own peril. If you can imagine biting the head off some poor lizard, scouring the oceans of some distant moon, robbing mannequins for sheer entertainment, shifting giant chess pieces, some deceptive multi-lingual interpreter, then you shall have no problem understanding the text you are about to read.
Brynn Gallagher uses her internship at a new true crime show to investigate the unsolved murder of her favorite teacher, uncovering secrets about her school, her teacher, and her ex-best friend in the process.
But the biggest secret of all is the disappearance of Lida Poe, the African-American woman who keeps the books at the local plastics factory. Word has it that Ms. Poe left town, along with a hundred thousand dollars of company money.
" Plucking the feathers of meaning that cover the voice, dismantling the body from which the voice seems to emanate, resisting the Sirens' song of fascination with the voice, concentrating on "the voice and nothing more": this is the ...
At the end of the After Ever Happy, Landon got married—but readers everywhere have been wondering who will get to call the nicest boy in the After series their forever love?
Nothing More to Lose is the first collection of poems by Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish to appear in English.
Songs include: Fat Kid * Fell in Love with a Ghost * Go to War * Gone * The Great Divorce * Jenny * Just Say When * Let 'Em Burn * The Matthew Effect * Salem (Burn the Witch) * Take a Bullet * This Is the Time (Ballast).
“But let's not be coywith one another. You know my attitude toward insurance companies. Feel it's more or less a civic duty to rook 'em. ... It was just murder, nothing more thanmurder, with none of us better off than if she had lived.
But there is a twist : They did not speak , they did not sing , they remained generally silent , almost determinedly silent ; but ... Music was everywhere in dogs ' lives , ready - made , but this one was just created out of nothing .
I push the medallion farther into my pocket as I carefully scan the ground for anything else my father might have left behind . When I'm satisfied that there's nothing , I return my attention to Shane .
I want to remain as nothing more than just friends with him. The relationship is truly platonic.” “You mean there is going to be another guy there?” Frankie's tone was incredulous. “How long has this been going on?