House of Brides
Jane Cockram
"Have you been in this part of the country before?” the taxi driver asked as we approached Barnsley for the first time."
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Arroyo
Chip Jacobs
"Ask Nick the place for Saturday night culture, and he’d tell you it was Clune’s Theater before you completed the question."
Curious Toys
Elizabeth Hand
"There he was again, smoking a cigar in front of the Infant Incubators."
A Lush and Seething Hell
John Hornor Jacobs
"In Springfield, they check into their hotel, an aging Holiday Inn off the interstate."
How Beautiful They Were
Boston Teran
"Who am I? It is a question Nathaniel the actor asked himself with every new character he was to play."
Masses and Motets
Jeffrey DeShell
"Maybe this sparseness wasn’t unusual, maybe they all lived like this, with few personal possessions, with nothing to tie them down to the secular world."
The Devil’s Due
Bonnie MacBird
"The long thin wedge. I had heard Mycroft speak of it before. It was a metaphor, I suppose, for whatever he did at Whitehall."
The Fragility of Bodies
Sergio Olguín
"She didn’t like umbrellas, so Verónica went out into the rain in a black raincoat, a waterproof version of the coat she usually wore on these cold days at the end of autumn."
The Poison Garden
A.J. Banner
"Out in the driveway, I scrolled through the contacts on my cell phone until I reached the listing for my business attorney, Gabe Harvell."
The Dollmaker
Nina Allan
"After crossing the Albert Bridge, the train seemed to enter not just another county but another world."
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