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When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You’re opening your own heart here. You...

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Disbelief is easy, Kane. It’s faith that takes courage, and character.

When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You’re opening your own heart here. You...

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Stories: All-New Tales

and only when that happens do you realise just how much silence there really is. Silence between lov...

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Storyboarded by the West Coast’s finest, the ceiling celebrated the exploits of that most durable of...

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You have to accept gifts occasionally, because there are some things you can’t give yourself

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I shut my eyes, turned away for a moment, and it came: a shiver of finality like the one when you de...

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You love because you want to need someone the way you did when you were a child, and have them need ...

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When you’re a child the world forbears you, allows you your flights of imagination, your feelings of...

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Only Forward

How many times have you tried to talk to someone about something that matters to you, tried to get t...

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When you're born a light is switched on, a light which shines up through your life. As you get older...

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Only Forward

There are times when life seems like a struggle where the only reward you get for hanging on is the ...

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One of Us

I guess, like some guy once said, if triangles invented a god, the chances are high it would have th...

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Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laug...

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I caught one last glimpse of her face, howling something at me.There were too many vowels in what sh...

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Best New Horror 22

I wash with the can of water I set aside the night before, and eat whatever I put next to it. The wa...

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I once met a woman who'd been in therapy... and it seemed like the big thing she'd learned was to ig...

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Is she dead?" called Zenda.Sort of," I shouted, "And the pizza's completely fucked too.

Cross-legged on the floor, you drink, hoping each mouthful will hurt; occasional flurries of spastic...

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Michael Marshall Smith

Novelist

Born: 1965-05-03

Died: N/A

Michael Marshall Smith (born May 3, 1965) is a British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer. When writing thrillers, he writes under the name Michael Marshall.More