{"id":14305,"date":"2021-05-22T19:42:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T23:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=14305"},"modified":"2025-05-05T20:52:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T00:52:51","slug":"skim-blood-and-savage-verse-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/14305","title":{"rendered":"Skim Blood and Savage Verse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Skim Blood and Savage Verse<\/a><\/em> (2017) Angel Martinez<\/a> (Offbeat Crimes)<\/p>\n

\"Skim<\/a><\/p>\n

How could he have even thought about not celebrating his thirty-fifth birthday? Especially if it meant it gave her an excuse to invite all the old money and local officials to the affair. And outside? Of course it had to be outside. The weather in June was glorious and Carrington always exaggerated the symptoms of his \u2018illness\u2019 for attention.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cManda\u2026 I\u2019m sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amanda stopped in mid-stride on her way out of the room and pinned him with her best glare. \u201cDon\u2019t start. If it\u2019s about your mom, you\u2019re not her keeper and you can\u2019t make her like me. If it\u2019s about getting me to come today, I had some great food. If it\u2019s about not being the world\u2019s best vamp and being a sucky partner again, shut it. Not doing this with you today.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cMr. Graham, we\u2019re from the 77th. The paranormal crimes unit.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cErasmus, please.\u201d He led them back to a desk and produced enough chairs for everyone to sit. \u201cI do hear about your unit sometimes. My mom\u2019s wife\u2019s cousin is your department commander.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cOh, thank freaking jam on toast,\u201d Amanda said. \u201cExplaining us first takes longer than the interview sometimes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Horribly clich\u00e9, of course, but once his daylight color vision had gone to hell, he had stopped trying to buy any clothes not black, white or gray. Everything else was simply disappointing once he stepped outside.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They spent the rest of the shift running down a report of a phoenix near Penn\u2019s Landing, which turned out to be someone\u2019s escaped macaw, and talking to a man who claimed to have seen pixies around his garbage cans, which were in actuality a combination of rats and too much tequila.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Publisher : Pride Publishing
\nRating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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