- Did he have regrets about seeing stars burn out before their due moment? Of course, but he couldn’t let that stand between him and the external world. If it did, he would find with relative ease every excuse not to leave his bed.
- While passing through Northwestern hamlets they thought of the young ones whose saw life go by on the beds of lumber trucks destined for distant cities.
- Concluding thoughts resemble everything to come before, mere fragments of a whole splintered by my arrival into it.
- With a tired sigh, Bill released into the night those words every man says when living in the shadow of a love that was never his: “if she’s happy, so am I.”
- There was something foreboding about the dog’s refusal to relax at sun down.
- “Your rhythm is off, in fact, I haven’t seen your feet touch the ground in weeks.”
- He earnestly tried listening to the man’s beliefs, but found himself distracted by the faint ringing he always heard just before someone tried to sell him something.
- A sarcastic laugh rolled off her tongue and over the sleeping mountains.
- The whole of life appeared in an instant: A strong wind blew, carried away ethereal pollen, extinguished my spliff’s cherry, and knocked a chirping nest from a canopy branch.