She married the friends, parties and troubles along with the man.

She liked to believe everything was black and white, except her own biases.

It was too quiet now that Jake's wife had taken the kids and moved to Jacksonville, abandoning their now desolate home. 

Things slipped through and he was forced to admit he had lost his edge.

My horse hated me and would take any opportunity to drag me through the underbrush or bite me when my back was turned.

A shadow fell across her face and hung there, momentarily allowing her true feelings to show through before the bright sunlight brought back the mask of a smile.

They lay passed out in a pile of torn wrapping paper and twisted ribbons exhausted from their gift-giving frenzy.

Pampered and doted on Pookie the poodle was the most demanding of pets.

Linda and Rick spent the holidays in lock up after their botched burglary.

His eyes looked as red and bloody as the sun he watched rise that drunken morning.

The dissident was now the dictator who did to his enemies what had been done to him.

Drunk off the spiked eggnog the two old gentlemen came to fisticuffs over what carol should be sung next.

The machine, unable to be stopped once put into motion, eventually ground its makers bones to dust.

The star had grown used to the common folk kowtowing to him, but in the little town they ignored him since no one watched television and the movie theater had closed years before.

"Without the rule of law we're no better than animals," she yelled as the rioters pushed past her and set the building alight.

I wasn't afraid of the darkness of night but by that which lived inside me.

When the arthritis got too bad to continue painting, Fritz turned his artistic eye towards other aspects of his life, from his clothes to his country estate, and dazzled more brilliantly than ever before.

For a brief moment everything went silent when the shots echoed through the neighborhood.

when the ideas stopped coming Ralph turned to newsstand gossip rags for inspiration.

Lilly looked as if gravity worked twice as well on her and that she had been sucking on a lemon for most of her life.

"We spied on you for your own good and tortured your neighbors to keep you safe," he yelled in rage when questioned on his and the other men's intentions.

The anchorman stood in front of his mirror, gut jutting, and realized he was yesterday's news.

The data breach wasn't so bad financially, but the Internet surfing histories of the government officials - porn, personal care product websites and searches for a variety of embarrassing ailments, proved to be a crushing blow.

She sat in her room, stoned, and waited for her life to jump-start.

Dean meddled his way into a corner - a dark, dank, desolate corner.

"There are bad people in every profession," the sergeant told me with a humorless grin, "and I'm lucky enough to have chosen one where I get to use a gun."

Orville was ousted by his underlings who had been undermining him for years.

The nightstick whooshed out and thumped against his head, ending the conversation.

Irene considered herself a down-to-earth person who eschewed the superficial, but she found herself returning to Las Vegas year after year and loving every moment.

The bombs lit up the sky like a second sunrise.