They watched the sun sink below the ocean and wished time would slow down.

The plane shimmied and shook, but the pilot seemed nonplussed.

Jane got weepy when she finished reading a novel, missing her daily interactions with the characters.

He finally relaxed just as his vacation was coming to an end.

The light danced across the waves like children chasing their shadows.

The beach was calling.

Steeped in the mythology of the streets, Lu knew the names and criminal records of all the thugs in Hell's Kitchen. 

We sat in front of our televisions and watched the world change.

"Happy birthday to me!" Franny chortled from her seat at the bar, while the rest of the regulars pretended she wasn't there.

He looked like a baby deer stumbling through the woods as he lifted himself from his sickbed.

Sam preferred the honesty of criminal enterprise to the squares' insurance and credit card rackets.

Isabelle, following her long illness, felt as is she was bathed in the bright light of a warm summer morning.

I opened the window and influenza.

The Internet became her family and friends.

He thought of love as a hummingbird no net could capture or a once-plentiful creature that had been driven to the edge of extinction.

"I realized I was getting on in years when my friends started dropping dead at an alarming rate, but now I know I'm truly old because I'm the last one here," Frank told the nurse between puffs on his oxygen tank.

Contended with his life for the first time, Pierre's art began to suffer for it was angst and only angst which inspired him.

As the actress grew older she realized she was much happier in the lamplight than in the limelight.

The statisticians had nothing on Lucky McGillicutty's gut instincts when it cam to the ponies.

She lost steam halfway through her lecture and had already lost her students' attention by her second sentence.

"Sure, I wrangled with my editors. They were all idiots, half-wits and wing-nuts," growled the old writer, recalling his days in the news business.

By the third day it was apparent the jury had gone off the tracks, splintering into factions as if they were contestants on Survivor.

His grandiloquent lies formed a rickety shelter under which he huddled.

The quietude of the falling snow was broken by the scraping of a shovel against concrete and the curses that accompanied it.

By mid-January, they were all sick of winter and ready to move en masse to warmer climes.

Beatrice's body constantly betrayed her, falling ill at the least opportune times.

He wondered if his paranoia was caused by his illness or the mysterious phone calls and the black SUV that seemed to appear every time he left his house.

All Jimmy wanted was to be a farmer, but the pressures of Hollywood kept him from the goal until he was too old to manage the work.