urban-fantasy

Do you think we can be friends?_ I asked.He stared up at the ceiling. __robably not, but we can pretend.

That day and night, the bleeding and the screaming, had knocked something askew for Esme, like a picture swinging crooked on a wall. She loved the life she lived with her mother. It was beautiful. It was, she sometimes thought, a sweet emulation of the fairy tales they cherished in their lovely, gold-edged books. They sewed their own clothes from bolts of velvet and silk, ate all their meals as picnics, indoors or out, and danced on the rooftop, cutting passageways through the fog with their bodies. They embroidered tapestries of their own design, wove endless melodies on their violins, charted the course of the moon each month, and went to the theater and the ballet as often as they liked--every night last week to see Swan Lake again and again. Esme herself could dance like a faerie, climb trees like a squirrel, and sit so still in the park that birds would come to perch on her. Her mother had taught her all that, and for years it had been enough. But she wasn't a little girl anymore, and she had begun to catch hints and glints of another world outside her pretty little life, one filled with spice and poetry and strangers.

You both talk too much,_ the kid says. __hut up. Don__ make me tell you again.__e shut up, which I find hysterically funny.

In trials of ir'n and silver fain__he dead will rise and walk again__he blesséd few that touch the light__ill aid the war against the night.__ut one by one they all will die__ithout a cause to rule them by__s Darkness spreads across the land__e'll wield the oceans in his hand.__ive warriors will oppose his reign__nd overthrow the Shadow Thane__hey come from sides both dark and light__he realm the mortals call __wilight.___ magus crowned with boughs of fire__ill rise like Phoenix from his pyre__ beast of shadows touched with sight__ill claim a Dark One as her knight__he next, a prophet doomed to fail__ill find her powers to avail__he final: one mere mortal man__ho bears the mark upon his hand__he circle closes round these few__ade sacred by the bonds they hew__ut if one fails then so shall all__ring death to those of Evenfall.

Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?~Disarming(Reign of Blood #2)

This was an urban legend that didn't make it on to Snopes.com

Ever notice "demon" in the word pandemonium?

For chocolate's sake!

My father and I used to watch a ton of old horror movies when I was growing up. __he Creature from the Black Lagoon_ was one of my father__ favorites and he was very excited for me to see the film. But after the movie was over, I told him that I was kind of bored. I said to him, ____ sorry, Daddy, but I saw the zipper in the back of the monster__ costume. From that point on, I was really never scared at all. The point I__ trying to make is that I don__ believe someone intentionally tipped off the target. And I maintain that no one made some horrendous mistake, which I__ now trying to cover up. I believe what really happened with the operation was that our target ended up seeing the zipper. Orlo Kharms realized something around him wasn___ real. And he was able to avoid the trap we had laid out for him.

She loves dogs. And in time, who knows, maybe she would even have ended up loving the type of dogs who eat other small dogs for lunch.-- Leslie McNeill

I guess I should thank you for totally making my morning. It__ not every day a stranger notices my perspiration level.- Dr. Jeri Asher (BLACK MARIAH - A Calling)

All I see is my father__ tax money being wasted on shooting satellite pictures of South America like you guys work for the Travel Channel.-- Todd Dooley (BLACK MARIAH - A Calling)

I__ now requesting you refrain from calling me this early in the morning, before I__e had a chance to steel my defenses against hearing you utter the word __izard.__-- spoken by Dr. Jeri Asheer... to Chris Dixon.

Dina, I__ bored,_ Caldenia announced.Too bad. I guaranteed her safety, not entertainment. __hat about your game?__er Grace gave me a shrug. ____e beaten it five times on the Deity setting. I__e reducedParis to ashes because Napoleon annoyed me. I__e eradicated Gandhi. I__e crushed George Washington. Empress Wu had potential, so I eliminated her before we even cleared Bronze Age. The Egyptians are my pawns. I dominate the planet. Oddly, I find myself mildly fascinated by Genghis Khan. A shrewd and savage warrior, possessing a certain magnetism. I left him with a single city, and I periodically make ridiculous demands that I know he can__ meet so I can watch him squirm.

. . . hated each other so much their feud had become legendary. Half the jokes in the galaxy started with __ vampire and an otrokar walk into a bar_.

Dear Time,You're so beautiful when You stand still.

Niko was a man of few words and flying, sugary snacks. I like that in a human. ~Catcher

With him I couldn__ be anything but myself and that scared the crap out of me, because I had never existed like that before.