Read Online: Poetry
Vegan Yum Yum (2010)
While waiting, make the peanut sauce by whisking together the soy sauce, peanut butter, lime juice, sugar, chili flakes, and ginger powder until combined. Set aside. step 2 Cook the noodles until just softened, then drain and rinse with cold water. Drain well. Use kitchen shears to cut the noodle...
The Gossamer Plain
Zasian shouted, urging his companions to follow. Vhok parried a club strike from a fiery centaur and jammed the blade of Burnblood into the creature’s chest. The bandit bellowed and reared up in pain as the hole erupted with molten goo. The cambion had to fling himself backward to avoid his foe’s...
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
In that house, a wide and lovely place where all is arranged just so, the world that you and I know, the world which contains Omaha and Zimbabwe and strawberry ice cream and horses with spotted rumps and Ferris wheels and wars in Europe, would be the front parlor. The first thing you see when you...
Tampa
I began each class simply by smiling—perhaps my nervous hope showed through—then scanned the room for any eye contact that was returned to me with a promising streak of restraint. Connor initially seemed to be perfect: he was quiet, studious but not exceptionally smart, and didn’t appear to have ...
Soul of the Assassin
Rankin was mad at Ferguson for saying he’d screwed up when really he’d done the most logical thing under the circumstances. Ferguson was mad at himself for not having realized that it might be a trap. Guns, who’d cycled back around the city and was watching Thera, wasn’t quite sure what either of...
Death of a Chorus Girl (The Delacroix Series Book 1)
Sabene calls from my bedroom. I place the last jeweled pin in my hair and answer back, “I figured as much.” Sabene’s image flashes in the mirror. What I would give for her exotic features. The cobalt blue, strapless dress accentuates every single ...
Aurora 08 - Poppy Done To Death
It was late. Robin had gotten dressed and left about 1:00 a.m., giving me a kiss and a pat. He’d left a note on my coffeepot to tell me that he’d talk to me later. He’d signed it, “Love, your Robin.” I had to wait awhile before I had my coffee that morning. Something I’d eaten the day before, or ...
Surrender to Love
Sitting cross-legged on the hard ground, her wrists bound behind her, she glared at the warrior who had tied the rope around her neck, and had pounded a stake into the ground to make sure she wouldn't be going anywhere. She had stopped crying, realizing long ago, that tears only added to ...
Hidden (House of Night Novels)
Stark spoke low next to my ear as my circle group and I gathered near the entrance to the school lobby. Thanatos had asked us to wait for her to finish speaking with the professors and Warriors, and then she’d join us for the press conference.“I’m sad about Dragon,” I whispered back to him.“I did...
Not That Kind of Girl
Eli had made that very clear. He’d called a couple of hours before to go over the ground rules for his arrival and tell her that he’d e-mailed her the questionnaire he gave all clients. She’d since printed out a hard copy and started filling it out. Apparently, the only information the man didn’t...
DISARM (DISARM Series #1)
They were violent at first, causing me to thrash and scream, but Henry had been there to wake me from it each time, to hold my head as I cried. Sometimes I climbed into bed with him in the middle of the night, a preemptive strike against the night terrors. Just the act of sleeping beside him, wit...
They'd Rather Be Right
“I’m Steve Flynn,” he told them, and shook hands heartily with Billings, then Hoskins, and, because a good publicity man never overlooks a bet, with Joe. “We’re letting one of the wire services scoop the world by having their master-mind sleuths discover you boys and Bossy are responsible for thi...
The Billion Dollar Bachelor
Pandora Garret didn’t even bother protesting. There wasn’t any point. Thing One—aka Jimmy, one of her bodyguards—was already getting out of the armored limo to investigate the crowd clustered outside her Manhattan apartment, and besides, even if she had protested, he never listened to her anyway....
Southern Heat
She became stiff as a board and stared up at me. There was a little fear there, but I could also feel the heat of her body. I know when a woman wants me, and no matter what her irascible mouth was saying, her body was screaming out to me loud and clear. &...
Winter Study
Onions frying in butter smelled of home and safety and warmth, but for once Anna wasn’t hungry. Her fingers loosened around the mug she held, but it didn’t fall into her lap, spilling the dregs of her drink. Other hands lifted it from her. Robin. Anna hadn’t the energy to open her eyes, but she c...