He sent her secret messages (but they never left his head). 

I'd become feral and was finally happy. 

Normalcy had been trampled underfoot for both good and evil. 

We wondered how someone who burned with an intensity like a thousand suns could possibly die. 

He loved calling everyone "sheeple" as he followed his leader over a cliff into the turgid waters of a pandemic he claimed was invented by the media to scare people. 

For some, it could never be "business as usual" again. 

A maze of forgotten lies and half-truths left Florence lost to love.