“Felix, drop your pants.”
I recognized the smells. Ditch water. Smoke. The stink from…
Mel called. He asked me to meet him in Aurora…
I lay on my back, blind with pain. Every bone…
Time to cover my tracks and find another way home.
I bought a new cell phone. My first call was…
The replies from my hacker came back in a series…
Zombies. Psychic signals. The astral plane. All had something to…
The psychotronic diviner sat on the front passenger’s seat. A…
Adrianna lived south of Abundance Boulevard. Here the roads were…
One moment this case was a dark closet and the…
Hard drops of rain splashed on my face.
What woke me was the sensation of having a hot…
When the Araneum learned that I had lost the diviner,…
Humphrey’s Kountry Kitchen was on the west end of town,…
My body screamed: Danger, get away. This…girl…woman…whatever…was poison. My legs…
The girl’s words lanced through me.
Phaedra was dying? And she needed my help?
Was Phaedra talking about zombies? Now we’re making progress. “What…
The tendrils withdrew into the sheath of Phaedra’s aura. Her…
I charged the door and kicked it off the hinges.
If the echo started, blam, Phaedra would eat a .45…
As a vampire I have supernatural powers. The Toyota doesn’t.
Our parade convoyed back into Morada, the black pickup leading,…
Cleto froze. The sawed-off shotgun remained close to his leg.
My hypnosis hit him like the lash of an electric…
I needed something with more detail of the area than…
We got into my Toyota and headed east a block…
Shawna lay on the bed. The penumbra of her aura…
I would go out through the bathroom window. The bars…
I drove west to the town of South Fork. I…
Phaedra looked strained and shrunken as if she were caught…
The sketch Phaedra held was a caricature, but the rendering…
The afternoon sun retreated and cold, dark shadows claimed the…
Cavagnolo and I stepped from behind the trees and back…
The trail I’d been looking for disappeared into a flat…
The zombies carried me around the house. They climbed the…
If I had no way to escape as a wolf,…
I turned to the man. “Take me inside.”
Zombies slipped poles through the wire grid of the cage…
Hennison rattled through a pan of tools on the workbench…
My mind put everything in vampire speed.
I don’t know what time Dr. Hennison returned. For me,…
I came to with my face and the front of…
Tendrils squirmed from Phaedra’s aura, signaling her terror. Spots of…
Gino lead the zombies in a stiff-legged march. A red…
Hitting Gino’s arm was like smacking a girder. It barely…
I took gliding strides and let my knees absorb the…
I pulled Phaedra close. I smoothed her hair. It was…
Phaedra convulsed. She stared at me, then through me. Her…
I gave Jolie the rundown on Cavagnolo. He’d supply me…
I laughed, said okay, and continued. Jolie turned around and…
I left Eric’s place. Cavagnolo had to get his own…
I landed on top of the zombies, not levitating so…
Reginald was hunched over a small cart. Sonia shoved clothes…
Time hovered like the big clock of the universe had…
Were Nguyen and Phaedra safe? I knew he would take…
Jolie zipped the front and the sleeves of her motorcycle…
I was back in my office in the Oriental Theater.
I returned to my apartment. I needed a drink. I…