As her hard-won flesh finally touched his he wondered if it had all been worth it.

Leaving the table she thought of fattened ticks and Violet Beauregarde, the Willy Wonka character who blew up like a large balloon and had to be rolled away.

After the divorce, although he didn't eat turkey, Frank would throw one in the oven just to have the smells of Thanksgiving wafting through the lonely house.

We watched the town burn from a sheltered cove and waited with bated breath for the raiders to return to the dark sea from whence they came.

He came from a long line of hawkers, hucksters, snake oil salesman and charlatans, so it made sense for Neil to enter politics.

Hugh believed his story was unique, original and unequaled, until it was pointed out to him that the plot was stolen from an episode of "All in the Family."

He'd managed to pull off the bank job and make it across the border, only to be run down by an old lady who was adjusting her radio dial as he crossed the dusty road.