Niloofar Masoomi

“They were kidding each other, a camaraderie which probably had its beginnings during the fight. It was like that sometimes.”
― Bobby Underwood, The Long Gray Goodbye

“You rarely saw the celebs protesting anything of substance. The Glades weren't a sexy enough cause, but give the latest blonde-haired twenty-something who'd just hit it big on TV six or seven horn-tailed, red-spotted, sticky-beaked, pigeon-toed, multi-striped tree-owls who might occasionally fly over the two-mile zone pumping millions of barrels of oil out of the ground, and suddenly she began to feel a stronger connection to the land than the Ancient Ones, the Anasazi.
Two months later of course, the only red-spotted, sticky-beaked creature in sight would be the little blonde's flush face when she made it on TMZ for failing a breathalyzer test and cursing the cop arresting her, shouting the typical Hollywood star mantra: "Don't you know who I am?”
― Bobby Underwood, The Turquoise Shroud

“Hermes, the Psychopomp.”
― Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold

“But that was over there, in Greece. This was Mykonos, a seaside sanctuary so timeless that I half expected to glimpse Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings walking along the dock as we disembarked from the ferry.”
― Bobby Underwood, The Long Gray Goodbye