Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.

The water reached up for her, pulled her down tenderly out of the heat, seeped in her hair and ran into the corners of her body. She turned round and round in it, embracing it, wallowing in it.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.