"it says NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS but it don't say why."

"My party piece: I strike, then from the moment when the matchstick conjures up its light, to when the brightness move…"

"All land lines are down. Reports of mobile phones are false. One half-excoriated Apple Mac still quotes the Dow Jones."

"We walk to the ward from the badly parked car with your grandma taking four short steps to our two. We have brought h…"

"Where does the hand become the wrist? where does the neck become the shoulder? The watershed and then the weight, wha…"

"Here's how they rated him when the looked back: sometimes he did this, sometimes he did that."

"I've made out a will: I'm leaving myself to the National Health. I'm sure they can use the jellies and tubes and syru…"

"Ignite the flares, connect the phones, wind all the clocks; the sun goes rusty like a medal in its box - collect it f…"

"Mother, any distance greater than a single span requires a second pair of hands."

"That heart had been an apple once, they reckoned. Green. They had a scheme to plant an apple there again beginning wi…"