“What the…what? I think we should take you to a doctor or something. You have little black hairs poking through all over your face.”

"The Other Side is a shady bar over on the bad side of Necropolis. The bartender, an old dusty Renaissance ghost grumpily takes my order and slides it towards me."

"She couldn’t just ask if anybody else could see the giant snake-lizard-thing wrapped around the bridge’s support beam."

"You are the most oblivious person ever. There’s a little girl who comes through the park who used to throw trash on the ground, a couple of times of tripping over her own trash made her start yelling at other people and picking up trash."

"Command has been having trouble with the deep-range telescopes out by Neptune.  Last week they went black.”

"I would be the eyes and ears of everyone meeting a possible life form for the first time. When I’d left the speculation had been wild. My personal favorite was giant butterfly type creatures."

"Souls think being an angel is easy - all music of the spheres and celestial light. Well, it's freaking hard work."

"She sighed, working with the child version of Lauren is so difficult."

"Back then, we didn't have any formal rules to the game we played."

A smokejumper story. "She dove off the edge of the porch and spread her wings."