Book Preview Morbidly curious, the squint-eyed customs official examined the two holes in Baker St. Cyr’s chest. He touched the flange of warm, yel ow plastic that rimmed each of the female jacks, and he tried to determine how the flesh had been coerced into growing onto the foreign material. St. Cyr would not have … Read more
Book Preview A Darkness in my Soul Divinity Destroyed… For a long while, I wondered if Dragonfly was stil in the heavens and whether the Spheres of Plague stil floated in airlessness, blind eyes watchful. I wondered whether men stil looked to the stars with trepidation and whether the skies yet bore the cancerous seed … Read more
Book Preview Bitter and drunk, Earl Blandon, a former United States senator, got home at 2:15 A.M. that Thursday with a new tattoo: a two-word obscenity in blue block letters between the knuckles of the middle finger of his right hand. Earlier in the night, at a cocktail lounge, he’d thrust that stiff digit at … Read more
Book Preview As I wrote this book, the singular and beautiful music of the late Israel Kamakawiwo’ole was always playing. I hope that the reader finds pleasure in my story equal to the joy and consolation that I found in the voice, the spirit, and the heart of Israel Kamakawiwo’ole. As I was finishing this … Read more