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Out there, he’d been a member of a barehanding crew, an elite high-voltage repair team that worked on live lines up in the flash zone, perching like birds on wires pulsing with deadly current. === “Someone has to settle the score for her.”…
What’s your name?” “Get fxcked.” “Your parents weren’t any more fond of you than I am, then. === he had worked so hard for so many years to bury this part of himself, to not be one of those grown men who fought like children for children’s…
Mark had met a few people who cared more about their trucks than their homes. It usually didn’t suggest good things. === “Having a child,” Lauren’s father had said, “is to spend your life swimming with sharks. You think I’m joking, but…
Violet stood there with her strange smile, cheerful as a New England B and B hostess. === Single-parent nights were one thing, and she’d had no trouble voicing that concern. Single-parent life, though?We’re too far gone in this world to…
Through one corner of the windshield, he saw the Beartooths taking shape, jagged granite towers that looked like they intended to take a bite out of the clouds. === He wore heavy work boots, the kind her stepfather had worn. The first man…
as they say, man plans and God laughs. === The bull-moose approach of males, always deferring first to gender, then to size. Likewise, the gun scared him more than the knife when what mattered was not the weapon but the willingness to use…
“Tell you something, Markus—older you get, the more you realize the only things in this world that can really cause you pain are the people you love. === “The most important lessons are the ones that leave scars, boy. That’s what your…
It was an arrogant assumption that any strike against society implied an ideological cause, some bizarre attempt to correct society, rather than a clean and simple desire to watch it burn. === And for those he had found on the radical…
we determine what story they need to hear. It’s the story that they’re already telling themselves, don’t you see? It’s the nightmare they believe in. Once you understand that nightmare, you join them in it. Their fear becomes your…
a world that promised progress born from hope but acted, again and again, out of fear. === When it goes down, our fxcking joke of a president is going to say that it wasn’t anybody from the Middle East. He’ll say it was AMERICAN…
The flash zone was actually an insulation zone. High-voltage lines were exposed, cooled by the air and wind, which meant that the air and wind also carried some current, always affected by humidity. The higher the voltage, the larger the…
“You are no doubt proud of your achievements right now. Hold on to that feeling for as many minutes as you can. I assure you, they won’t be plentiful.” === “The tower holds you up, bud, not the other way around. Stop squeezing her so…
A wider truth than what he’d known before. Fuller, like a sunrise revealing a world that was different than the one you’d imagined in the night. === The electricity-filled air around the lines, crackling with corona discharge, smelled the…
For every incident there were a hundred threats; for every threat, a thousand rumors. === Linemen who did barehanding work referred to putting on the suit as “becoming metal.” === the anger that could overtake him so often, a survivor’s…
"Is that your personal guard bison?" he asked. "That's Jackson. He's a surly bastard. Chased some tourists into an outhouse last year and kept them there until he got bored." Larry smiled. "I'm partial to Jackson."