The green exit sign flashed over our heads, an orange warning strip across it screaming, “EXIT CLOSED.” If h is the difference in height between the two sides of the gap, θ is the angle of the exit’s slope, V is the velocity, and g is the standard acceleration of free fall at 9.8 m/s
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Shifty Liars
Celia frowned. “I’m so sorry, but it is our policy to process such requests in writing. If you submit a written request, I should be able to get back to you in a couple of weeks? By Friday after next, at the latest.” Two weeks. We didn’t have two weeks. More importantly, she was lying.
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Phone Calls
Yesterday, Nancy, our awesome agent called to discuss the upcoming cover shoot for SAPPHIRE FLAMES and the following conversation took place. Me: No, we do want a guy! We absolutely want a hot guy. … No, the problem wasn’t that he was a guy, the problem was that he was naked and they processed him
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A Pithivier
Steps sounded behind me. I turned. Runa caught up with us. “Matilda said you would be out here. That child is odd.” More like unsettling, until you got to know her. “She’s an animal mage. They are unique. Did something bad happen?” “You mean in addition to everything else? No.” We both watched Shadow sniffing
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Just You Wait
My cell rang. An unlisted number. Oh good. Ten to one, somebody wanted to sell me super-special medical insurance or inform me that the IRS was about to arrest me unless I dropped everything and bought an armful of gift cards at Wal-Mart. I answered it. “What is it?” “You’re tracking me,” Alessandro said. Runa’s
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Snippet: A Simple Menu
Just a few things on a weekday morning… 🙂 Since it was my turn to cook breakfast anyway, I headed to the kitchen. Cooking was basically my and Mom’s job. When Nevada lived with us, she was too busy keeping us fed and clothed. Bern and Leon usually made meat, preferably, steak, and they served it
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When English Language is Just Not Enough
Warning: hilariously odd bad language ahead. Poor Catalina. Bug served as Rogan’s surveillance specialist. Magically altered, he processed visual information at an astonishing rate. If anybody could find [Redacted], Bug could. He was also fanatically loyal to Rogan. The moment we involved Bug, Rogan would know every detail of what we asked and why. Then
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On Rants, Well Deserved Nature Of
“As I’ve pointed out four times now, this entire incident has been recorded by security cameras. The footage will show that Ms. Etterson and I were attacked without provocation and we defended ourselves as is our right under Article 3 paragraph 1 through 4 of the House Protection Act.” “Is that so?” Sgt. Munoz’s eyebrows
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On Flowers
K. asks, Why did Nevada care so much about the flowers at the wedding? I didn’t like how bridezilla she was. They were symbolic. Rogan’s mother is an expert on all things Prime and she understood that they had to have a large public wedding. Rogan and Nevada made a ton of enemies through the
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A Little Frustrated
So heads up, SAPPHIRE FLAMES is available for preorder on Amazon. There is no description yet. I do not recommend buying. You don’t even know what it’s about. (It’s about murder. Lots and lots of murder.) While on Amazon, I happened to see the Silent Blade and it has several reviews which indicate that people
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Little Snippet
Have to work and do all the things today, so here is a short snippet. As an aside, Gutenberg, which is the new text editor for WordPress, arbitrarily eats spaces between words when you paste from Word. Begin primal scream of rage. The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences occupied a nine-story building on Old
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Diamond Fire is #11 on USA Today Bestseller List
Yays! This was such an unexpected surprise. I didn’t think they counted novels. Thank you, guys! Here is a celebratory snippet. “Danger is our middle name,” Grandma Frida said. Mom stopped what she was doing and looked at Grandma Frida. “What?” Grandma Frida shrugged. “It’s been too quiet around here. I’m ready for some action.”
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