Books
The First Day of Someone Else’s Life
"Your name is Mook Donnel. Your life is a lie. Every word you speak is a lie. Every breath is a lie. How did this happen to you?"
All Your Cities I Will Burn
"At that time I was a middle-aged man at loose ends. I had just resigned my employment of the last decade, as an investigator with the Duke-GeneSolutions NuLife project. I gave notice by smashing my lab with a steel meter stick. Alcohol may have been involved."
My Name is Leejun
"I reached down and touched the crow lying on top of the trash. The feathers on its tummy were soft and nice to feel, but its body was stiff and cold. The crow part was gone. You can't learn anything from a dead crow."
She’s a Flight Risk
"The night bell captain rang up Tatiana's room, saying there were people coming up from the lobby. He was interrupted by sounds that Tatiana recognized as automatic weapons fire. Then the line went dead, along with the bell captain, she supposed."
Bullet Dance
"At night Shi and Morir came to Clio's room and taught her to bullet dance. Morir held a silvery Desert Eagle and sighted along its barrel at Clio. He wore a white linen suit and his black hair fell to his waist. Clio thought Morir had the most beautiful hair she had ever seen. It looked like her mother's hair in old photographs. Her mother was dead. For that matter, so was Morir, or at least, he was not alive in the usual sense."
Fourteen Experiments in Postal Delivery
"I got your voice mail. You ask, why do I hate you? Have you forgotten? Perhaps you have had an alcoholic blackout. You got drunk. You hit on my sister Heather, at my party, in my apartment. You then threw up on Heather while humping her on my bed."Errant Souls
"Don't play outside on windy days," Jorge's father said. "Your soul might blow right out of your body."
Adventures in Dog-Walking in Downtown Philadelphia
"It was a inconvenient day for Dawdle the dachshund to turn into a fax machine..."