Six Sentences
May. 11th, 2012 04:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valarltdFrom the untitled Urban Fantasy:
It took about ten minutes worth of reading until I really was shaking. I knew I had to work with my leather chew-toy, much as I wanted to tell him to blow town and go back to buggering sheep amid the blooming heather. Letting Eyeball get his corporeality on in my town was going to make the zombie uprising of '07 look like a Sunday School picnic.
The vow-breaker stuff worried me more than the greed. This thing could stoke people's greed all he wanted; hell, television did that. But the vow-breaking meant they would cross any and every promise they had made, anything from a child's “I'll be good, Mama” to “I solemnly swear upon my honor and conscience” that the police said to “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States.”
It took about ten minutes worth of reading until I really was shaking. I knew I had to work with my leather chew-toy, much as I wanted to tell him to blow town and go back to buggering sheep amid the blooming heather. Letting Eyeball get his corporeality on in my town was going to make the zombie uprising of '07 look like a Sunday School picnic.
The vow-breaker stuff worried me more than the greed. This thing could stoke people's greed all he wanted; hell, television did that. But the vow-breaking meant they would cross any and every promise they had made, anything from a child's “I'll be good, Mama” to “I solemnly swear upon my honor and conscience” that the police said to “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States.”
