Naked Heat

As a writer, I can think of no greater terror than confronting a blank page, except perhaps the terror of being shot at.

You’re like my wife.” “Because I’m not sleeping with you either?

Best autopsy ever," said Rook. "I think I just peed myself a little. Seriously, I did.

He wrote as if he were the reader. It was also how he kept his writing from becoming too cute, which is to say, about him not the subject. Rook was a journalist but strove to be a storyteller, one who let his subjects speak for themselves and stayed out of their way as much as possible.

I've been thinking about how ugly gossip is. How it victimizes people, but how as much as we say we hate it, we still feed on it like it was crack.

[She] was trading sex for print. She certainly wouldn't be the first woman to do that, now, would she, Nikki Heat?

Rook was a journalist but strove to be a storyteller, one who let his subjects speak for themselves and stayed out of their way as much as possible.

Around 11 P.M., unable to concentrate on his work or even watch the news, he had started to wonder if this was how it started with stalkers. And then he started to think maybe he'd do his next article as an investigation of stalkers. But then he wondered... if you do a ride-along with a stalker, are you stalking the stalker? It all got very weird.

-Tu teoría sería interesante si no fuera por un pequeño detalle. -¿Cuál? -Que no estaba escuchando

-Esta es la mejor autopsia de la historia -declaró Rook-. Hasta creo que me he meado un poco de la emoción. En serio