- The first incident happened when I was six. The symptoms had been there way earlier, but it was then that they had finally risen to the surface.
- Apparently, she had said all that to him as she wiped the faded walls of his mausoleum.
- I went up and stood on the overpass with my head hanging over the railing.
- The stairways from the overpass fanned out in every direction. I lost my bearings. The world I saw underneath the stairs was all the same icy gray, left and right.
- The main road led to a narrow alley lined by old houses, those crumbling walls all marked with crimson, random numbers and the word "vacant."
- A small boy whose age I couldn't tell, but then black shadows were being cast on and off him again and again.
- The short cries weren't coming from him but from the shadows surrounding him, more like shouts of exertion.
- The boy was covered in blood, like a coat of red paint.
- One lady kept making wrong guesses and drew laughs from the audience and the shopkeeper.
- On television, both teams were about to play another round of a high-points game that could turn the tide.