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By the time Bill finally saw both fists, they had filled his field of vision so completely that he couldn't figure out what he was looking at -- but he knew how he had to respond.

The bulbs all at once flickered out, and we were alone on the molding book shelf's crown.

The butcher's son had an irrational capacity for luck, and even when his good fortune faltered -- as it did on the night of the ambassador's ball -- only two ever waltzed close enough to suspect that his top hat was made of lox and Havarti.

Apparently the phrase "pig in a poke" doesn't mean what I thought it did.

As he fell, Mark discovered, he could feel very pleased, so long as he focussed on the whistle and tug of the wind.

The first sign of trouble (in the tall empty house that we moved into on my eighth birthday) came in the form of the high-pitched sighs of empty bedrooms' doors, melting open each night only minutes after I'd checked to make sure they'd been locked.

What everyone took for a swagger was, I knew, a limp.

Four miles from the road and two miles from the hiking trail lived an oak tree that looked just like an oak tree ought, but whose trunk had been made carefully, quietly, secretly hollow.

Ellen was not typically a vindictive woman, but there was something about that fucking bird that gripped her with rage as tightly as her left hand, shaking as it extended from her upstairs bathroom window, now gripped a slingshot.

He banged his mouth hard on the nightstand, bursting out of bed in a panic at the sound of the smoke detector; but fifteen seconds later (after discovering that it was merely the squeal of his brand-new alarm clock), his fear was sustained by sight of his sliced lip in the mirror -- how, he struggled to remember, had he sustained this injury?