{"quotes":[{"text":"I have fourteen black wives an' one white, de chiefest one. I would sure enough shoo her away dis minute if you tek her place in my bed tonight, Mama Sam Moon.'Was sex all these people ever thought about? I guess life was short back then, and nobody had much time to waste on anything else.","author":"J.R. Rain","tags":["loup-garou","new-orleans","shifters","time-travel","vampire","voodoo","witches"],"id":7343,"author_id":"J.R.+Rain"},{"text":"Voodoo very old magic - possibly one of the oldest forms of all time. It's often referred to as vodou or voudoun....Voodoo worships the loa, which are literally spirits - like ghosts - but much more powerful. The priestess can summon the loa, and the spirit inhabits her body. It's called being 'ridden.","author":"Amanda Carlson","tags":["paranormal","shifters","urban-fantasy","vampires","voodoo","witches"],"id":38040,"author_id":"Amanda+Carlson"},{"text":"There was something about a guy in a uniform most women found irresistible. Ceelie and Sonia had pondered this peculiar phenomenon over late-night glasses of moscato back in Nashville. They'd decided it had to be the belt and all the equipment that dangled from it when the guys walked, which not only was phallic but probably released extra sex pheromones into the air and turned women into nectar-seeking honeybees.","author":"Susannah Sandlin","tags":["louisiana-bayou-mystery","romantic-suspense","voodoo"],"id":70189,"author_id":"Susannah+Sandlin"},{"text":"Even a goat got to be a goat.' Esperança's comments about slaves during the triangular slave trade.","author":"Tanja Kobasic","tags":["historical-fiction","paranormal","slave-trade","voodoo"],"id":80189,"author_id":"Tanja+Kobasic"},{"text":"I had been a happy normal wife and mother in Orange County until ten years ago, when I was attacked by an evil vampire... And turned into one myself. It's made my life since gross and scary and, let's face it, weird.","author":"J.R. Rain","tags":["detective","new-orleans","paranormal","vampires","voodoo","witches"],"id":92498,"author_id":"J.R.+Rain"},{"text":"Rini moved in to kiss him, but on his cheek. She gave him two pecks on his right cheek and one more on his left, which caused him to blush. “Three kisses, huh?”She beamed at him and nodded when she explained, “Fo’ Faith, Hope, an’ Charity.","author":"Jason Medina","tags":["a-ghost-in-new-orleans","and-charity","beamed","blush","blushing","charity","faith","for-faith","hope","jason-medina","kiss","kisses","love","ray-durante","rini","romance","superstition","superstitious","three-kisses","tribal-publications","tribal-publications-inc","voo-doo","voodoo"],"id":111309,"author_id":"Jason+Medina"},{"text":"Time seemed to drag with dreamlike slowness, like a knife through cold honey, and the room took on a surreal golden sheen as if I was looking through that same jar of honey. Maybe at that moment, the sun shone just right though the grimy windows, but the woman, the shelves, the jars, everything in the room appeared in tones of gold and sepia, except for the painting behind the counter. From behind the shopkeeper's head, a fluorescent Mary and Jesus glared at me, their cartoon-like faces reproaching me for being there.","author":"Sara Stark","tags":["dark","literary-fiction","new-orleans","voodoo","women-s-fiction"],"id":140199,"author_id":"Sara+Stark"},{"text":"All that Anne Rice crap is true, I thought on my way out the door; New Orleans really does have a vampire problem.Besides me, of course.","author":"J.R. Rain","tags":["detective","new-orleans","paranormal","shifters","time-travel","vampires","voodoo","witches"],"id":140396,"author_id":"J.R.+Rain"},{"text":"It wasn’t that she believed in voodoo, precisely—but she believed in the people who believed in voodoo—and that was scary enough. -Coralee Ayers.","author":"Caitlin Rush","tags":["magic","south-carolina","southern-fiction","voodoo"],"id":144006,"author_id":"Caitlin+Rush"},{"text":"I guess us folks in California are kind of straitlaced and old-fashioned.'Hahaha, I thought on the way downstairs. I never thought I'd say those words with a straight face...","author":"J.R. Rain","tags":["detective","loup-garou","new-orleans","shifters","time-travel","vampires","voodoo","witches"],"id":145107,"author_id":"J.R.+Rain"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}