It is so easy to presume that while your own world has ground to an absolute halt, so has everyone else's.
He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.
What's worse ...? The devil you don't know ... or the devil you do?
Having a fantasy come true doesn't always mean it will be permanent.
It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.
An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.