"Billy did a keg stand for twenty-two seconds and fell down laughing, the ground a shifty puddle of mud from the rain."

"My friends and family describe me as a good catch, meaning I bathe regularly, have working sexual parts, and can hold down a job."

"As she walked through the terminal, she looked over the passengers-in-waiting, the technicians, the clerks, and the vagrants, and was taken by the vacancy of it all, the single-mindedness of the entire enterprise,..."

"Predicted, yet still surprising,
a heat wave had arrived in the city."