Seek within, for the answer cannot be found without.

“Instead it yanks on a worm wiggling in the loosened soil. Its feathers shimmer …”

“Time seemed to drag with dreamlike slowness, like a knife through cold honey, a…”

“She loves the smell of his fur, all warm and musky and cat-spit clean.”

“Thursday, the-night-of-the-date, comes and goes, leaving a school bus tire trac…”