“Chad Lester was appalled by this dishonesty, as only a dishonest man can be. For those who have never seen this phenomenon in action, he was the kind of man who was entirely unaccustomed to looking at lies from this end of the barrel. He was now counting the rounds in their chambers. He could see their pointed, silvery tips. He licked his lips.”
Like a Little Rubber Ball
“His sentence rolled to a stop against the wall and just sat there, abandoned.”
Say Again?
“This was not because Cindi did not know how to handle her cousin Cherie, but rather because her husband was better than she was at deciphering code whenever Cherie was hysterical. And Cherie, on the other end, was speaking something like high-volume Navajo under stress.”
Inconvenient When That Happens
“John was mildly irritated, not at Cindi, but with that special kind of vaguely aimed irritation that we for ourselves when in the presence of people who are being correct in our direction.”
Which Is Pretty Indignant
“The rest of them were about as indignant as a room full of wet cats”
Evangellyfish, p.133
Unspoken Blessings
“And the earth would go around the sun ten entire times before he had finally met Cindi, who, as Puritans go, was as hot as it gets. And, John thought smugly to himself, for those who think that means ‘not very,’ he could write a book, although no Christian publisher would ever touch it. She could make him bleed from both his ears, like some very happy kind of parachute accident. John grinned inside his head.”
At Least When She Had Cell Coverage
“When he told Mystic Union about it six months ago, she had come alive. Her eyes had sparkled, just like her crystal earrings that kept her in touch with her two grandmothers, now deceased”
Trying to Get a Grip on the Letters
Letter to the Editor: Look, Wilson, there were no letters last week, and only around ten this week. This is not the way to end the year strong, and I am frankly disappointed in you. ...
Not an Insignificant Problem
“Robert was astute enough to know that a statement for his attorney was not to be a creative writing exercise, and so he had to stick to the facts. But he hardly knew any facts and was thus having trouble sticking to them.”
That Is, Quickly
“If it was narcissism and self-indulgence you were after, he could write like a bat out of the bad place.”