Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong.

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

A good banana daiquiri is hard to come by. I've only ever found one place in this country that makes a proper one, and that's in Leeds.

Botswana is also the only country in the world with a colour in its flag meant to represent rain (a sort of blue-grey). Not many people know this.

It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country's main export. It had rain mines.

Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do.

He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity.