Post time came and went before I'd gotten the tip that could have made me. 

"That's all folks," I thought, putting my hands in the air as the Looney Tunes theme ran through my head.

Frank bounced from the bottle to the Bible and back again.

He was too complicated for such a simple world.

We watched the books burning and celebrated the victory over knowledge.

Cindy's knock-off fashions and ever-present perplexed expression gave her away as a visitor to the city. 

Dark forebodings swept through the town ahead of the storm.

The small city was in shock by what had befallen their neighbors, friends, and families. 

Larry's former friends lined up to rebuke him. 

Death always came as a surprise, even when expected. 

The neon wilderness had been Nick's home for far too long. 

She was an extra in her own life story.

"Don't confuse lust for love," she says, pushing him out the door.

Clyde was never sure exactly when the tipping point came between his general dislike for his fellow humans and his desire to eradicate them from the face of the Earth.

They pushed us against the wall never expecting we'd go over the top, circle back and take them out.

He was blindsided by love, then run down by deceit.

Foes no more, we drank together until dawn.

They partied their way through paradise.

The salt from the sea air clung to their lips.

It was pointless to tell the politicians they had been on the wrong side of history, for they were long dead, and the world was a wasteland.

The briar patch was my home.

What nights those were.

From there they headed north hoping to make the border. 

The yachts, like floating towers of Babel, arrogantly stretched towards the sky.

Out of the darkness she strode carrying the night with her.

I saw the old man cry watching the men march off to war.

His Tin Pan Alley days were gone for good.

And then the sky turned black.

It was like we could feel our trendiness slip away moment by moment.

Telling people when they had food stuck in their teeth became a personal crusade after my spinach salad fiasco on national television.