It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a dozen heart beats.

“People pursue things. As soon as they have them they run away from them.”

“I cried until I was all cried out.”

“Laura looked up at him with dead blue eyes. I want to be alive again," she said…”

“Her skin is cold, and clammy; her eyes are the color of sky, on the grey, wet d…”