Always there remained some evidence of his shape shifting, like the streak of war paint left on his face at the end of     Dealing in antiques, I had encountered better copies of     "You buying or dreaming?" Murph was behind the plate. He prowled the plaza around the fountain, gazing intently, like he was cruising for drugs or sex. So I dashed upstairs, changed, and got back outside. I wanted to hurry home, yet didn't want to go there at all. Averaging those out, it's three stars. He had a three-day growth of beard and a wild, tangled mane touched with gray. So the marriage made a kind of sense. The second book in this hilarious, illustrated series cracks the imaginative world of minions wide Get ready for some of the best...Minions of the Moon is an interesting piece of futuristic space opera set on Earth and not the moon. I should have been able to spot my Shadow's hand. Then a couple turned and smiled and seemed to share their smile with me.

"And when he tries to tag me, he falls down and you run all the way home." Like I was a bug and she was a bird. "Just rest for a minute, El." Runt Higgins needs answers, fast. Kevin, Stuart, Bob, and the rest of the Minion tribe are enjoying a snow day.

It was on the ground, bouncing wildly. It seemed maybe my mother was awake.

Let us be Diana’s foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon, and let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal. The books weren't quite up there with Dr. Seuss or Curious George. "I was in Little League three years. Curtis Park in Queen of Heaven parish in Dorchester in Boston had jungle bars, slides, seesaws, and a brick building with rest rooms and the offices occupied by Charlie, the crippled caretaker. He could only be brought back to himself by his parents' call of "Jelly Bean, where are you?"

But its work was done. Then came a message from Addie and Lauren reminding me that dinner was at their place at eight.

As a business person, I should have crossed the street, found out what the guy liked so much, given him my card. His connections to a crazed and addicted psychologist leave Kevin running from very real demons as well as those who haunt the dark tunnels of his mind. A big kid named Billy Healey who thought he was tough was up and he was mad because people were yelling things about his mother. The cover had two names, Helena Godspeed Hewett and Max Walter. author Richard Bowes. As Fred continues to live the life of depravity Kevin is trying to avoid, Fred's rapidly deteriorating image serves as a haunting reminder to Kevin of what the future may hold. Then he discovers that he's not alone.

If so, I am four or five, up way past bedtime, dozing against my uncle Mike, the cop.

That means we had moved to a house in Dorchester near my grandmother's and I was the new kid in Sister Gertrude Julia's third grade at Mary, Queen of Heaven School.

Then, "You're filthy.

I felt like the author couldn’t make up his mind on whether the doppelganger was real or imaginary. The Shadow did not bother to emerge from the bedroom and find out what I was doing. As I came in the front door, my mother stood on the stairs and looked right in my eyes. Not wanting to get too close, I stopped at a pay phone and dialed my answering machine. Amid a collection of distressed     Actually, it was just a drawing of a little boy in a striped jersey and shorts. I pounced and trapped it with my bare hand. But even this oasis is tainted by Kevin's guilty knowledge that Scott Sr. met his fiery death in a motorcycle crash after Kevin provided him with a dose of drugs that pushed him over the edge. Max said, "The end of innocence." Off we went, the two of us, on a walk around the pond, both watching our feet churn the leaves, turning suddenly each to catch the other's eyes and laugh. I remembered that day when the two of us kicked leaves behind her Shadow's back. For Frieda too. Minions of the Moon was the fourth story in the anthology Wildthyme on Top.