Ram pleaded. Julia had the gun twisting into her hair, digging it in, and her breathing was picking up. Sure signs that she was seconds from pulling the trigger. “You can have the house, Ram. And all the food and the trucks, just bury me. I don't want to be eaten.” &...
Ever since she heard the car pass overhead, Jillybean had been in a state of the rawest excitement. First there had been smoke, and smoke meant people. Then came the car, and cars definitely meant people. And lastly there were voices drifting down the drain pipes! Voices only came from people. &n...
Jillybean said. It was the weakest argument she had ever laid out to her father and it was no wonder he said nothing but only raised a sweat-rippled brow at her. In the cell next to her was a charred beast of a man who openly scoffed. “Please,” the man said, although how h...
He was still cringing on the floor when Deanna started scrabbling the assault rifle from her back. For half a second, when she swung it in his general direction, he thought she was going to shoot him for being too loud. She brought the gun up and fired three times over him...
Yes, he was interrupted three different times as troopers went berserk and had to be restrained, and then there were the endless, tedious phone calls from his boss and his boss’s boss, and this mayor and that dignitary and even someone from the governor's office, all wanting to know what was goin...