How dare she be anything he was annoyed with her for not being?

“Everything is post these days, as if we're all just a footnote to something ear…”

“It was as if they could read each other’s minds. No, not minds: each other’s mi…”

“The Three of them were beautiful, in the way all girls of that age are beautifu…”

“His view of the world featured swift disasters set against a background of lurk…”