The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood - a material that couldn't have been widely available in Palestine.

Just to keep bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

... the food was good solid stuff for a cold morning, all calories and fat and protein and maybe a vitamin crying softly because it was all alone.

The English were notoriously unenthusiastic about burning witches. I suppose ours were too soggy.

Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.

He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.