Greg S > Recent Status Updates

What’s the logic here? They have a suspect be a witness? — “…you ought to recognize him. If you don’t, I know you’re stalling because I’m not so sure you didn’t kill the broad yourself.”

Oh, right. Racism. - “The Mexicans rose.”

weird for a military unit. — ““Just don’t—” “Get us into any trouble. I know.” Touraine rolled her eyes,”

also, this is another slavery/racism fantasy story. how is this still a thing?

so far, it’s another young woman with anger issues. haven’t I read this character before?

Nice irony but gross. — “You’re so loyal; you’re so mine.”

Lol. So dramatic. — “He leaned against something, as if he couldn’t make it.”

Bizarre. — “ let me twist your hand a little…”

pretty privilege.

“His face was the last thing the light fell on as I eased the door closed, squeezing the light in there to a slit. I took that away with me. I didn’t want it, but I couldn’t seem to get rid of it, shake it loose. It stuck to my heart like flypaper.”

Jesus. My man, do you know easy it is to make a sandwich? — “Great guns, even sandwiches for later!”

I don’t know what he means. — “That was a typically feminine reaction just then.” He closed the door.”

You ok there, Mrs. Murray? -"I lost track of the opening part of the conversation. I suppose it was girly-girly stuff, anyway. "

Now that I think about it, Mrs. Murray's plan doesn't make much sense.

charming guy. - “If it’s the face that bothers you you’ve got an olive to look at instead.”

A little hyperbolic since all you did was faint for a second. — “…but to an unreality as bad or worse than the nightmare that had just preceded oblivion.”

Like weeds, 20-dollar-words are beginning to pop up here and there.

Poor Mrs. Murray, somebody swapped brains with her. Oh! Or maybe this personality was hiding underneath. That’ll be my head canon to explain it. — “A bacchanalia at fixed prices…”

This chapter is all side-missions

Only in a book could someone memorize so much information in one read-through.

Groan. - “I heard a fairly audible masculine tread coming…”

author might be a little long-winded. — “…it was three away now. There, it was two away. There, it was the next one. This foot was trying not to move, to stay back where it had been. Now the other one was trying not to. Smart feet…”

Oh, no. We have three suspects and they each get a chapter, like a checklist at a grocery store.

Lol. The author has no idea... - “… I now realized; an intangible something that he could not immediately pin down might give me more stay with him than some minor blemish that could be cleared up at a single prescription.”

Not suprised a book from 1943 doesn’t know about medical bias against women. — “…thought of holding my hand for a moment or two under the hot-water tap to scald it more or less sufficiently…”

“It was life’s last afterglow glancing off the faces of the dead as I brushed by them.”

“The lowest depths of all, this side the grave. There was nothing beyond this, nothing further.”

weird. are we sure he didn’t do it? — “Don’t let anyone else—I know you’re young yet—but that belongs to me.”

weird. — “You see, you’re too appealing, too attractive, honey…”