As her hard-won flesh finally touched his he wondered if it had all been worth it.

Leaving the table she thought of fattened ticks and Violet Beauregarde, the Willy Wonka character who blew up like a large balloon and had to be rolled away.

After the divorce, although he didn't eat turkey, Frank would throw one in the oven just to have the smells of Thanksgiving wafting through the lonely house.

We watched the town burn from a sheltered cove and waited with bated breath for the raiders to return to the dark sea from whence they came.

He came from a long line of hawkers, hucksters, snake oil salesman and charlatans, so it made sense for Neil to enter politics.

Hugh believed his story was unique, original and unequaled, until it was pointed out to him that the plot was stolen from an episode of "All in the Family."

He'd managed to pull off the bank job and make it across the border, only to be run down by an old lady who was adjusting her radio dial as he crossed the dusty road. 

The sounds of scratching in the walls grew louder.

Leaving the grassy knoll that day I smiled broadly knowing I was in the clear.

"She was a pushy broad with a mouth like a sailor and the right hook of a wharfman," Butch fondly remembered of his lost love.

Terrance, a famous designer whose home was his showpiece, preferred to sleep on his mother's couch in order to preserve the purity of his vision.

Cakes, pies, pudding and cookies all went in, yet none could satiate Karl's unending hunger.

His life would have been very different, Joe thought, if only he hadn't tripped after the fuse was lit.

They defrosted the cherries they had picked that summer, made a pie, and pretended it was once again warm outside.

"And that was the last summer we had," she said, finishing the story for the children as they huddled near the fire that hadn't gone out in 50 years.

The patient's suffering mounted as the dentist ruminated on his taxes.

The footprints in the snow led straight from the crime scene to me.

"Into the woods we went all smiles and laughter, but by nightfall everything had changed," Frank said, letting loose with a lungful of cigarette smoke as his words trailed off.

A watery future, if not a grave,  was foreseen by the ship's crew.

Tumbledown and decrepit described both Hank and his home.

Her night was a booze-fueled bullet streaking towards dawn.

The cool autumn air, the jewel-like leaves, the snap in the wind, and Lillian knew it was coming to a close.

He stared at the prison bars, then at his hands, and wondered how the work they had created could land him here.

Sue let fly the stone and felt the thrill of rebellion.

The money flowed like a raging river into the election, flooding out the citizenry.

Daniel, in an attempt to flee police, hid in the zoo, but should have thought twice before jumping into the lion's den.

In the kangaroo court the wallabies ruled.

"My dreams of a husband and family may seem boring to you, but for me, as a stunt pilot, explorer and soldier of fortune, it was a necessity," Bernice told her grandchildren.

The elopement ended in a murder-suicide.

The dog, tied to a tree, looked on at the deer in the field with envy.