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The Readers Muse

  • Statistic Terrorism

    "What if I poured coffee on my cereal instead of milk? ...Hermann? Herms? Are you listening to me?"

  • Behind the Eight ball

    Why was no one making a lick of bloody sense!

  • Latibule

    It was said you would be drawn to your one. That was the only advantage you had.

  • Scaevity

    The boy took his hand.

  • Anfractuous

    "Are we the only guests?" "Yes, I thought we should get to know one another."

  • Plush

    "Yeah, I really wasn't being subtle, was I?"

  • What doesn't kill me (makes me)

    "I hope you got your shitting pants on."

  • (Get down with the) thickness

    If love lived anywhere, it was shaped to soft, ivory perfection under her skirts.

  • Manifesting (love)

    "Take the car, at least?" Brad asked, "Your shit box isn't going to make it without breaking down this time."

  • Aegis

    He'd been about to tell him everything when Jack called. He wasn't sure if that was a good thing or not.

  • (In) Theory

    Maybe he didn't mind losing that bet after all.

  • Swell

    God had granted him eyes, but he'd needed a few more years to see.

  • Anachronism

    Because Quinn had made it clear he wasn't going anywhere. Perhaps for a very long time.

  • Paramnesia

    It was instinct. The old kind. The kind he figured they'd all forgotten.

  • Mélange

    Whichever dead moron wrote that time heals all wounds had been wrong.

  • Crisp

    But when it came to Colin, she was an animal without fault.

  • Today (I want to resolve nothing)

    The truth was, she was cripplingly bored.

  • Pre-scientific traditions

    Memories hit differently after the drift. Meaning, sometimes he didn't know which memories were whose. You'd think he would. He knew his own mind, after all. Mostly. But the drift had changed everything. Sometimes he didn't know if they were his and he'd just forgot, or if he and Hermann's brain-juice had ripped through a memory blender and melded together - somehow.

  • Sticks and Stones

    Everything about Hermann was stupid.

  • Volar

    And maybe that was what being human was all about anyway. Trying.