"He came in wearing a pork pie hat, the ripped top painted like a ladybug."

"Amyn had described wearing a wrapper to Kayla in hundreds of ways, but the word that she remembered hearing most often was 'electric.'"

"The patrons sweated, the drinks sweated, Mira sweated, droplets pooling under her eyelids, as if even her glass eye was perspiring."

"Eliot adjusted the brim of his straw hat to shade his eyes."