It was usually not the big things that destroyed marriages but the day-to-day treating each other poorly. - Jim Harrison

A sonic boom crushes a baby mink's skull. We know that. Isn't it enough?

It didn't work to try to write about sex, doom, death, time, and the cosmos when you were thinking about a massive plate of spaghetti and meatballs.

A movement in the vines startled her and an opossum scurried out, looked at Clare and flopped over in fake death. She had seen this twice before in her garden back home and it was difficult not to draw certain parallels, amusing ones, though if you played dead long enough the act of coming back to life was questionable.