Literature

DIMITRI AND I BOTH FROZE as the shock of that name hit us. Sydney, glancing between our faces, gave us a dry smile.”I take it you know who that is?’…

Context This report pertains to the selection of an academic paper (Caporale et al., 2009) which is examined based on its aims and results, citing new insights offered by its…

I BRACED MYSELF, EXPECTING TO see the Dashkov brothers appear again with some last minute “advice.’ Instead I saw–“Adrian!’ I ran across the garden I’d appeared in and threw my…

WHEN YOUR BOYFRIEND IS A dream-walker, you pick up a few lessons. One of the most important is that doing physical things in dreams feels exactly like doing them in…

FORTUNATELY, THEY WERE MOROI FACES.That didn’t stop me from raising my stake and moving closer to Sydney. No one was attacking us, so I held my position–not that it probably…

IT TURNED OUT I WAS wrong about the local police department comprising of one guy and a dog. When Dimitri and I walked back to the motel, we saw flashing…

THE PROBLEM WAS, OF COURSE, that I soon lost myself in the darkness.After living in the wilds of Montana, I was used to how completely the night could swallow you…

REALLY, WHEN YOU THOUGHT ABOUT it, Sydney showing up wasn’t much weirder than half the other stuff that seemed to happen to me on a regular basis. Sydney was an…

GETTING AWAY FROM DIMITRI WASN’T just about our rocky romantic past. I’d meant it when I said I didn’t want him getting in trouble because of me. If the guardians…

AND WHEN I SAY THEY blew up, I mean they blew up.Flames and smoke unfurled like petals from a newly opened flower as those poor monarchs exploded into pieces of…

WELL, NOT GONE EXACTLY.Muted. Kind of like how it had felt immediately after she’d restored Dimitri back to a dhampir. The magic had been so strong then that it had…

AS ALWAYS, IT WAS DISORIENTING. Faces and skulls, translucent and luminescent, all hovered around me. They were drawn to me, swarming in a cloud as though they all desperately needed…

I DON’T LIKE CAGES. I don’t even like going to zoos. The first time I went to one, I almost had a claustrophobic attack looking at those poor animals. I…

WALKING INTO THE COURTROOM was one of the most surreal experiences of my life–and not just because I was the one being accused here. It just kept reminding me of…

MAYBE IT WAS SOMEONE’S SICK sense of humor, but I ended up in Dimitri’s now-vacated cell.I had come quietly after that guardian laid the charges before me. In fact, I’d…

I DIDN’T WANT TO SEE anyone after that. I trekked back to my room as quickly as I could, hardly noticing the obstacles and people in my path. Over and…

THE MAN GRINNED. “YOU MAKE that sound like a bad thing.”I made a face and looked back into the techno-bag with new appreciation. “What’s going on?” “I’m the messenger. I…

I DIDN’T NEED THE BOND to find Lissa. The crowd tipped me off to where she–and Dimitri–were.My first thought was that some kind of stoning or medieval mobbing was going…

I DIDN’T TAKE THE GUY’S advice and tear off out of there, though I didn’t exactly sit on the front step either. I lingered nearby in a cluster of cherry…

THERE WAS LITTLE MORE MIKHAIL and I could say to each other after that. I didn’t want him to get in trouble for what he’d done, and I let him…