Nature beat out nurture when Nick beat his stepbrother to death.

First the animals disappeared and then the children.

When the pigeon alighted on his tightrope, Jean knew it was the end of the line.

He wondered where all his time, money, and friends had disappeared to over the years. 

Ira tossed his computer, angry over the erectile disfunction and adult diaper ads peppering him every time he got on-line.

The rains came suddenly and swept away the heat and stink that had turned the whole neighborhood mean that week.

"How do you know, if you don't try," he said, slowly moving towards me.

They took everything from Ted, but they couldn't steal his dreams.

"We lived out our songs and it nearly killed us," wheezed the old country musician. 

The smell of chlorine on hot concrete always took him back to the summer he first found love.

I wanted and wanted and when I finally received I still wanted more.

"I'm alive," Alice cried, "but have never lived."

The smell of night-blooming jasmine made her head swim more than his kiss.

They were in love with the idea of love but didn't want to put in the work.

The road was her canvas and her thumb the paintbrush.

Deirdre's dreams were delayed due to truths untold.

Each morning Mabel promised herself she would end it but every night she was back in his arms.

Looking back he realized it had all been a game.

The summer ended suddenly.

I was no longer sure where vacation began and work ended.

At the end of the road they found both Happines and Bitter Regret, their dogs who had run off earlier that day. 

Liz spent her time worrying about Jennifer Anniston's love life and the myriad rivalries of the Housewives of New Jersey while her bills went unpaid and marriage disintegrated.

The old surveillance video showed a shadowy figure entering the museum just before the unsolved heist.

Toby totally misrepresented himself to his girlfriend's parents who later learned he was not a pilot but a peanut vendor. 

We thought we would live forever but the tombstones said otherwise.

"Self-awareness is overrated," said the computer to the dog. 

The world was becoming more and more annoying.

She was as phony as could be and yet no one seemed to realize it but me. 

Disorganization was at the heart of their home. 

Love won out. 

The animal approaches slowly through the fog,  an enormous wolf that he knows has come for him.