Missed getting dressed up for someone besides herself, and living in that delicious limbo of anticipation that having a real boyfriend was all about, not knowing what might happen next, and thrilled by the uncertainty of it all. Perverse as it seemed to her, she liked the idea of being in love with a guy so long that she could start taking him for granted. And wondered, briefly, if she would ever be in a relationship that lasted long enough to get past it. They were still at that stage where everything they told each other was engaging. Oz, decked out in one of his nostalgic bowling shirts, held tightly to Willow’s hand and babbled on earnestly about the fretless Rickenbacker the current band’s bassist was playing. From the looks on her friends’ faces, it was exactly that. The sights were fascinating, to say the least, and the company was, as always, the best anyone could hope for. The music wasn’t all that bad, she was forced to admit.
Buffy and her friends were fortunate to have found a table at all. All of them crowded into the relatively small club. Each band had its own following, some well deserved and some merely fanatical. She had never seen the Bronze more packed. It was called Amateur Night at the Bronze.īuffy Summers, the Chosen One, peered into the darkness, made somehow more dreary by the spotlights illuminating one band after another, each more hopeful and hopeless than the last.
Read moreĪLL THE FREAKS THAT LURKED in the shadows of the Hellmouth were out in force that night, and all gathered in a single room for a horrifying ritual. His original novels have been published in more than fourteen languages in countries around the world. As an editor, he has worked on the short story anthologies The New Dead, The Monster’s Corner, and 21st Century Dead, among others, and has also written and cowritten video games, screenplays, and a network television pilot. He has cowritten three illustrated novels with Mike Mignola, the first of which, Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire, was the launching pad for the Eisner-nominated, New York Times bestselling comic book series Baltimore. His current work-in-progress is Cemetery Girl, a graphic novel trilogy collaboration with Charlaine Harris. In addition to the Magic Zero quartet, his YA fiction includes Poison Ink and both the Prowlers series and the Body of Evidence series of teen thrillers, several of which have appeared on the YALSA Best Books for Young Readers list. Christopher Golden is the New York Times bestselling author of novels for adults and younger readers.
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