The last time they made love she could feel the hint of pain and loss which would become her.

He lit a slim, brown cigarette and drew on it. "But have you heard the flugelhorn? I mean, have you heard a particularly adept flugelhorn?"

Cheater was a Goblin. He carried a long knife, not quite a sword, but more than your average pocket blade.

Those without magic, tried to figure out what their fellow co-workers were looking at as they watched Alysia fly. Oryn lifted her head up and her mouth gaped open, her eyes twitched as the reflection of a bright light glared across her eyes.

Some of the guys wear earplugs. They wear ‘em because they don’t wanna hear it. Oscar Livitt fucking. Nobody looks.

You want to be there, but not noticed. Alive, but not too alive. Because that's how you feel every day. Like an apology with legs.

Instead of these gew-gaw ‘signs’ you waffle about, I will give you reality

You climb on a stool, drink off the first glass without coming up for air. Man, that tastes good!

They were a family, now, these three: child, widow, widower.

“Mescaline occurs naturally in our bodies, you know,” I said.

Slipstream features strange events in a typical world whereas New Weird features typical events in a strange world.

Jeremy and I are in bed tangled in the sheets, my head on his chest, and he’s playing with my hair, stroking it the way I like. He’s breathing heavy, my arm wrapped around his torso, and I’m smelling him and he smells sweet like he always does. Th

On the eve of celebrating their patron saint at the public house, one of his particularly cabbaged mates was bold enough to ask him about his cranial deformity.

There were trees where I lived and clean pavement

Zach lifts his glass. “Look at us! We eat like kings. Kings!”