“How about a Springfield XD-S 4.0? Nine-millimeter. Five and one in the pipe.” Turnbull examined the small automatic. “Sold.” “Now,” Ernie said. “I don’t know if you need it, but in case you have a hankering for a scattergun, I do have
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“When they were finally released at noon, they hustled down Pennsylvania Avenue to 15th Street and the Old Ebbitt Grill, where they enjoyed a long lunch with Lindsey and Elaine.”
― Camino Winds
― Camino Winds
“course, Disneyland in blue California was now Transtopia, with the “Small World” boat ride now called “Flotilla of Fluidity” and entirely devoted to the countless gender identities, while the Matterhorn had been converted into a huge fiberglass representation of a sex toy. In the red, Disney had been dissolved following a horrific pedophilia scandal not long after the Split. Disney World in Orlando was now Patriot Land, featuring Ernie Eagle and a muscular, flying version of the sixteenth president called Super Abe. EPCOT was converted into a huge beer garden, since the only interesting thing to ever do at EPCOT was drink.”
― Overlord
― Overlord
“I saw an infinity of such dreary evenings stretching out ahead of me. Trapped in a dirty old house with a grieving old woman and an irritable young one. And with only the books I had brought with me, most of which were still in my trunk anyway.”
― Rustication
― Rustication
“Disasters make us who we are. Natural and unnatural.”
― The Attack
― The Attack
“and the kids. I see them a lot, mostly on weekends. After we divorced, she married a guy who had been a soldier. That’s good though, you know, because if there’s trouble he can be there to protect the kids.”
― The Attack
― The Attack
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