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Richard is 20% done with More Better Deals

I finished my beer and got my coat, and we left out of there, went over to the dark den of sad dreams and at least one bad liver.

— Feb 13, 2023 10:51AM Add a comment

Richard is on page 131 of 352 of Everybody Knows

He tells her about the chest pains. He tells her about the drop piece in the nightstand. How close he had come. And that at least he’s not dead, but sometimes it feels like his life is just ticking off days until the last one. Suicide on the subscription model.

— Jan 26, 2023 11:35AM Add a comment

Richard is on page 517 of 736 of The King of Shadows

— Jan 08, 2023 08:43AM Add a comment

Richard is 51% done with Hasty for the Dark: Selected Horrors

There was a lot of sex on the wedding night too, the kind of thing I had never imagined possible. At least I think it was sex, but I can only remember a lot of screaming in the darkness around a bed, while someone kind of coughed and hiccupped in between lowing like a bullock. I know I was beaten severely with a belt by the witnesses, who were also in the room. A Travelodge had been rented for the occasion.

— Apr 11, 2022 08:04AM Add a comment

Richard is 21% done with Hasty for the Dark: Selected Horrors

— Apr 05, 2022 09:28AM Add a comment

Richard is 81% done with The Book of the Most Precious Substance

People thought money would make them happy. But money was the consolation prize in life. Money was what you had left to dream for when all the other dreams died. Money was what would keep you going when nothing else could delight you again.

— Mar 15, 2022 07:09AM Add a comment

Richard is 48% done with The Book of the Most Precious Substance

”Whatever it is that usually decides our fates—Gods, luck, random chance—it’s smarter than us. It’s always smarter. Magic works, but it’s an exercise in irony, sometimes a dangerous one. Be careful.”

— Mar 07, 2022 01:22PM Add a comment

Richard is on page 270 of 338 of Broken

Behavior that was cute when you were in your twenties becomes aggravating in your thirties, pathetic in your forties and tragic in your fifties.

— May 24, 2021 07:26PM Add a comment

Richard is 80% done with My Darkest Prayer

Safety is an illusion. There is no safety. Just downtime between tragedies.

— Mar 13, 2021 05:07PM Add a comment

Richard is 58% done with Saying Uncle

"The truth." He chuckled. "Everybody always wants the truth. Problem is nobody ever knows what the hell to do with it once they get it."

— Nov 25, 2020 02:07PM Add a comment

Richard is 72% done with Greener Pastures

He wept again, with an elaborate, scared joy. Out at the edge of his hearing was that music. It carried the same elegant distance, and he thought it must be the music of the angel he wasn’t going to become.

— Oct 28, 2020 10:39AM Add a comment

Richard is 93% done with The Familiar Dark

— Sep 24, 2020 07:47AM Add a comment

Richard is 22% done with The Familiar Dark

The vow came too fast, too easily. The kind of promise that’s easy to make because you’ve already broken it before the words are even spoken.

— Sep 08, 2020 02:32PM Add a comment

Richard is 51% done with Frayed

It’s a discouraging experience to be on top of a woman, making all the love you can, and seeing in her eyes the boundless adoration for another man. I had enough ghosts. I didn’t need to be haunted by one from a guy who was still alive. Especially under the goddamn covers.

— Aug 21, 2020 03:50PM Add a comment

Richard is 77% done with Detour

She was the type of woman I've always despised: the kind who knows all the answers and makes no bones about being hard-boiled.

— Jun 13, 2020 05:37PM Add a comment

Richard is on page 210 of 252 of The Lantern Man

"All of us are murderers, Stormy. I've always believed that. Under the right circumstances. When the moon shines just right."

— May 26, 2020 08:08AM Add a comment

Richard is on page 158 of 252 of The Lantern Man

"It's only flesh, my darling. And flesh is meant for the fire."

— May 22, 2020 08:04AM Add a comment

Richard is on page 76 of 252 of The Lantern Man

This is what trauma does: it makes you certain that the next trauma is always minutes away.

— May 13, 2020 12:21PM Add a comment

Richard is on page 70 of 144 of Nude on Thin Ice

All the lights had gone out of Nanette. Somebody had switched them off. It was as if she had misplaced her soul, and didn't have the energy, or will, to find it again.

— Apr 23, 2020 05:49AM Add a comment

Richard is 70% done with Unidentified

"We all have stains on our souls. Some of us just learn to live with them.”

— Apr 15, 2020 09:26AM Add a comment

Richard is on page 30 of 144 of Nude on Thin Ice

She was one of those immediate hell-raisers with the pulse beat, yet she gave the impression that she wouldn’t give a goddamn if you dropped dead at her feet.

— Apr 12, 2020 07:07AM Add a comment

Richard is 80% done with Where All Light Tends to Go

I couldn’t remember anyone ever holding me like that, and I thought at that moment that it had to be what love felt like. If that feeling and that comfort wasn’t what love felt like, then love never existed.

— Apr 05, 2020 09:24AM Add a comment

Richard is 61% done with Where All Light Tends to Go

He was a pussy, and I knew it. Somewhere deep down he knew it too. When he was alone, I reckon it came to him, and he stewed on it awhile. A man can’t hide that type of softness about himself no matter how hard he tries. Sometime or another, it’s going to eat at him.

— Apr 03, 2020 07:08AM Add a comment

Richard is 45% done with Where All Light Tends to Go

The tarp had a smell about it, a smell that usually reserved itself for things on the roadside, bodies that swelled in the heat and shrunk back with the coolness night brought, that rising and falling bringing life to something long since dead.

— Mar 30, 2020 04:32PM Add a comment

Richard is 70% done with The Immaculate Void

He couldn’t explain it then, and couldn’t now. There was only the conviction that he was hearing something that shouldn’t be heard, the utterances of a throat that should’ve remained closed.

— Nov 25, 2019 02:28PM Add a comment

Richard is on page 61 of 232 of The Immaculate Void

Wade Shavers haunted me in the way only a predator can, after he'd taken everything good and left everything bad, then got himself dead before I learned the meaning of the word closure.

— Nov 12, 2019 08:07PM Add a comment

Richard is on page 200 of 243 of Dry County

I must be a real dumb-ass to have done all the thinking
I've done and to wind up where I am. What a goddammn idiot.

— Oct 23, 2019 07:01AM Add a comment

Richard is 76% done with Corrosion

There were moments of happiness, moments when I convinced myself that everything was going to be OK, but those moments disappeared like tears in the darkness, and misery crept through a crack in the window and sat on his haunches in the corner of the cabin, glaring at me with grim satisfaction.

— Sep 23, 2019 09:27AM Add a comment

Richard is 60% done with Corrosion

You don't have to apologize, I said.
You only have to do one thing for me. Just one thing.

What is it? I'll do anything for you, Joseph, you know that.

Just keep lying to me. That's all I need. That all I've ever needed.

— Sep 15, 2019 08:10PM Add a comment

Richard is finished with Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

For a moment, they both regarded one another and then the other him smiled in a way that bared his teeth, and Steven realized that what he was seeing not only wasn't him after all, it wasn't even human.

— Aug 27, 2019 06:43PM Add a comment

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