Fuzzy Nation

by John Scalzi

“Please die in a fire, Jack,” Bourne said.

It takes a certain kind of dog to willingly demote himself from alpha dog, and that dog was Carl.

Better to be a monkey and not be able to understand what’s been taken from you, than to be a man and be able to understand all too well—and be helpless to stop it.

Holloway counted to five before replying. “Aubrey, you talk like someone who’s never gotten the shit beat out of him for being an asshole,” he said.