Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familiarize and anaphylactic shock.

— R.D. Ronald

Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...

— R.D. Ronald

Scott could feel the contents of his stomach flip over and over on themselves. He turned to the side and retched, frothy yellow bile spilled out onto the newspaper covered floor, filling the room with the putrid stench of previously ingested alcohol.' Look's like someone can't hold their drink,' McBlain said, and Dominic and Huge laughed. Scott was still staring at the steam rising from his evacuated stomach contents as he heard the hammer fall. The dull crack of bone splintering under its weight.

— R.D. Ronald

Scott glanced at his watch but didn't register what it said. The notion of time had become as absurd as the quietly glowing trees.

— R.D. Ronald

Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.

— R.D. Ronald

Sometimes he missed the numbed, walking-underwater feeling that the cocktail of narcotics used to give him. But if a situation went down in here, he was going to need all of his wits to get out of it.

— R.D. Ronald

Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.

— R.D. Ronald

Strange how things turn out. Two birds, one stone and all that.' McBlain chuckled at his own impromptu joke. 'But things have worked out for the best, and now we all get to work together,' he said, and a smile spread across his face as easy as a politician's lie.

— R.D. Ronald

That's why Twinkle likes the place so much, Scott thought, looking around at the faded wood veneer tables, and the faded souls drinking at them. Misery was soaked through the place like the old beer soaked through its carpets.

— R.D. Ronald

The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.

— R.D. Ronald