young-adult

His eyes were closing again, all of their own accord, so that he lay in red, pain-filled darkness. It occured to him that he was dying and he didn__ care. __e__ alive!_ Blue said again __e__ breathing!_ __ can__ see him breathing.

I wish for all who look for Gold,Shall find one letter less,A world where trying always wins,And leaves the loser blessed.

I need you. Right now. Let me love you right here, please.

If only I had the speed that my alien boyfriend had, then I could just zip through my senior year and forget about distance and mom__ annoyingly great sense of hearing. But when said alien boyfriend was in my bed, I wanted nothing more than the opposite speed. I wanted to freeze time to keep everything just the way it was.

JOH! Thank God I found you.___ have 9022 gods listed in my database. Must I thank all of them?

What do you know? This is where it all began,_ he said.__egan?___his is exactly where I was when I wanted to kiss you,_ he whispered, his lips brushing along my neck causing me to melt under his touch. __o bad.___xcept this time there__ no drunk netballer squawking at us,_ I teased.__ wouldn__ care if the seven horseman of the Apocalypse charged through the garden right now, nothing__ gonna stop me from doing this._ He leaned down and captured my lips with tenderness, a completely perfect kiss, like it always was.

Selfish as this sounds, I meant what I said earlier,_ he finally says.I try to remember what he said, but everything is kind of a blur. __hich part?_ __he ____ glad you came tonight_ part.__o I__ not imagining the nudging or the sparks or what I could have sworn was his thumb tracing circles on the back of my hand while we walked to his car. __mm. Well in that case, I meant what I said, too.__e kicks a rock I__ two steps from tripping over out of my path. __ou said the potholes in Leslie__ driveway suck.

It had become their creation, and they all would know it.

So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver__ butt rang about halfway through the War of 1812.

...first thing is that I love you. And the second thing is that as much as I honor your former profession, I don__ think your geese care much for your betrothed and I hope they hadn__ any plans on sharing our bed.

You know who you are you just have to believe it.

Dirge of the dying and the stench of fear,Black souls repent as hell draws near," - Percy Pemmeney the smuggler, from Curse of Ancient Shadows.

A 'T' for Tess, a 'T' for Toby.

A lot of the names in Talon reference other people or events. For example Amelia, the giant Eagle, was a __ip of my hat_ to the extraordinary aviator Amelia Earhart. Both love(d) to fly!

Tess, will you marry me?" Toby laughed.

I__l leave you guys to get acquainted. Somebody show Leo to dinner when it__ time?_ __ got it,_ one of the girls said. Nyssa, Leo remembered. She wore camo pants, a tank top that showed off her buff arms, and a red bandanna over her mop of dark hair. Except for the smiley-face Band-Aid on her chin, she looked like one of those female action heroes, like any second she was going to grab a machine gun and start mowing down evil aliens. __ool,_ Leo said. __ always wanted a sister who could beat me up.

Blood trickled down his chin as he was hauled up onto his knees, the golden rope securing his arms behind him and his ankles together. Arthur looked up and saw the fizzing sparkling crown coming down. I__ Arthur Penhaligon, he thought desperately... The crown was wedged tightly upon his head- and Arthur fell silently screaming into darkness.

My heart, always so strong in the past, was like the fishnet stockings that clung to my legs__orn, shredded, and full of gaping holes.