"I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightn…"

"She introduces me to a nurse as the Best Friend. The impersonal article is more intimate. It tells me that they are i…"

"When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. H…"

"Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, …"

"I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands. In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby. Imagine…"

"Maybe this is not a come-down-from-the-ledge story. But I tell it with the thought that the woman on the ledge will a…"

"Her ex stops by when he's in town and we pretend he's welcome. The two of them, Holly and this ex of hers, sit around…"

"In general appearance the is an extremely large and powerful fellow, with a beautiful head and speaking countenance, …"

"Very few of the old s interfere with the duties of their assistants, but there be men who seem to think you have mere…"

"Three days at , and up anchor again; our next place of call being . Every one has heard of the , who tried to beat th…"