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Juice

So I drive until first light and only stop when the plain turns black and there’s nothing between us and the horizon but clinkers and ash.

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The 113th Assistant Librarian

On the first day of the rest of his life, Oliver Wormwood was up, dressed and out of the house before the balefire lamps on Wizard’s Way had been switched off.

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The Grandest Game

There was a price to be paid for power, always.

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We Solve Murders

You must leave as few clues as possible

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The Voyage Home

She had yellow eyes.

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There are Rivers in the Sky

Later, when the storm has passed, everyone will talk about the destruction it left behind, though no one, not even the king himself, will remember that it all began with a single raindrop.

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The End Crowns All

I never asked for visions, I was one. In my future, I see myself regal and glorious, luminescent with the glow of my god.

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Gabriel's Moon

Gabriel watched closely as his mother lit the night light beside his bed.

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The Anxious Generation

When I talk with parents of adolescents, the conversation often turns to smartphones, social media, and video games.

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Such Charming Liars

“Would the young lady like to see something with a pearl?”

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The Book of Elsewhere

A room, full of violence to come.

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Breaking the Dark

Jessica turns onto her side and blinks into the darkness.

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The Fallen Woman

Jane Saville's gasp conveyed her shock as her mother's words landed like small blows.

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In a Place of Darkness

God’s sake, why did everything have to be such a sodding . . . trial?

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Eruption

Rachel Sherrill, thirty years old in a few days, master’s degree from Stanford in conservation biology, rising star in her world, still thought of herself as the smartest kid in the class.

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Lies and Weddings

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.”

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Clive Cussler's The Heist

When Woodrow Wilson entered the lavish dining room aboard the presidential yacht . . .

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Think Twice

Myron Bolitar was on the phone with his eighty-year-old father when the two FBI agents arrived to question him about the murder.

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At The Grand Glacier Hotel

I understood that furtive expression. After twenty-five years of marriage I could tell when Curtis had misplaced something, and from the way he kept feeling his pockets and glancing around, I knew that whatever was lost was important.

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To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods

The sky was crying again.

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The Sweet Blue Distance

Carrie had just dropped off to sleep when the tuba woke her.

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My Favourite Mistake

There’s more to this story than the clickbait headlines, but yes, in simple terms, I had a dream life – then I took a flamethrower to it.

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Earth

I dreamed that I dreamed about the musty grey soil of the island and the sweet perfume it emits after rainfall, a double remove from a place I will never visit again

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