The louder the babies screamed, the brighter the lights.

“Around fourth grade something similar happens with eyes. The baby eyes don't dr…”

“This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.”

“The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpo…”

“Ironic," Betty Lou said at last. "The cereus insists on sunlight---that's why i…”