Home > Work > End Turn (John Becmane, #1)
1 " Hope was a cold hearted mistress who promised a dozen wonderful things, and didn't deliver a single one of them. "
― Hew J. La France , End Turn (John Becmane, #1)
2 " The pick-up truck belonged to his boss's boss; a real pompous ass of a man named Alex Hudson. No one was quite sure what exactly his responsibilities were, but whatever they were, he never seemed to be doing them. Incapable of running a transaction, and unable to open or do simple maintenance on an account, the arrogant man was about as useful as a tauntaun on Mustafar. "
3 " Life, after all, didn't have plot lines. It was periodically nice to read a work of fiction without one too. "
4 " It's acceptable for John to call himself a geek. More than alright for his peers at the comic shop, who were also 'geeks' to call him that. Hell, he may have been alright if that sentence had been spoken from Kaitlin's mouth.As soon as a guy like Alex Hudson said it, it became insulting. Derogatory. He pronounced the word with a tone which said that he believed himself to be above such things as 'nerd culture'. "
5 " John hung up the phone, standing in the cold break room in silence. The silence spoke to him. It told him a million different things his brother might have wanted to see John about. "
6 " Both had subjects on their mind to discuss once they were out the door. The bank was comprised of a thousand ears, and those thousand ears were attached to tongues which over spoke their peace. Speaking of such matters as the two were inside the branch would be... foolish. "
7 " He was expecting the Special Victim's Unit, but instead found himself in the Mayberry Police Department. All they needed now was an ignorant child to learn the lesson Sheriff Taylor needed to learn by the end of the episode and they could remake 'The Andy Griffith Show'.+ a "
8 " Kaitlin rested her forehead on her fist as she sighed in exasperation. "John, has it ever occurred to you that none of these relationships have worked out because you over think like... everything about them?" The notion threw John off-guard, and he took just a moment to consider the possibility. Finally, he said, "Have you ever considered the reason these relationships never work out is because the rest of the population my age is under-thinking everything and I'm actually analyzing everything at the level a normal human should be? "
