He was a huckster, a charlatan and a world class cheat, but he was my old man and I'd be damned if I was going to let anyone else call him out.

Bill shot the computer, set fire to his Iphone, and headed south.

She thought of his love for her as a soggy, rain-drenched coat she was stuck wearing.

Only able to work at night on her romance novel after long hours as a copy editor, Lucy realized her lack of sleep had infused the book with a hallucinatory darkness and a palpable sense of dread. 

Bill "Beefsteak" Swift was a cheap political thug who carved out a fiefdom by bribery and threats, but was smart enough to know he was too dumb to make it to the big time.

Whistling down the lane, thinking about the girl he loved, he ran into a former-flame and changed his tune.

The roasted rat meat was a welcome reprieve from their usual gruel.