The puppy began training his humans from the outset and quickly had them in hand (an outcome he had wagered on with his litter mates when he learned he'd be going to a new home). 

Along with religion and politics. they had to add weather to the list of banned subjects at dinner parties when they discovered a climate change denier among their companions. 

 The gravity of gravity was not lost on Greg as he hurtled earthward. 

The searcher sought the seeker who taught the teacher who lost the lover to her insatiable desire to see the world. 

 That morning the politician woke hungover and with only a hazy memory of what he'd done the night before — he knew it involved social media — and hoped he could get away with blaming hackers for whatever profanity-laced diatribes against the oppressed he'd drunkenly sent out into the world. 

 The crispness of the morning air signaled the beginning of her favorite season.

Dusty always wore his hat at a rakish angle and looked you in the eye (even on his deathbed).