Sheila had trouble discerning old dreams from memories and would often get strange looks from relatives at family reunions when she would go on about being on stage with her cousin Ozzy Osborne or how on family vacations they would always have to escape the clutches of an evil witch.

The Civil War reenactment was going well for Sean until his cell phone went off while he lay sprawled out, ostensibly killed by a minié ball to the chest and from there it only got worse.

In the shimmering heat the two boys could barely discern the figure on the bridge, but as later events would show they were right in thinking the devil had come to bayou country.

For Sonny the Clown humor was the way he communicated, but sometimes, especially when he was drunk, his fists did his talking for him.

The birds soared higher and seemed to disappear against the sky so blue it hurt your eyes to stare at it and then they were gone like our friends who had been cut down too early.

While the grunts in the office continued to keep the business afloat, a never ending cast of half-wits, morons and those Stan barely considered Homo sapiens burned through middle-management on their way to a meagerly better gig up the company's creaking ladder or more likely to the unemployment office.

Teddy moved with the others towards the boy, unsure of what was going to happen next.