She approaches like she’s sizing them up. Five boys. Unarmed. A pile of swords over there. Ed Sheeran is there, but that’s not even the surprise.

Allanson made some sound in his throat, as if attempting to speak, but his tongue refused its office, and he only jabbered.

Considering the results of the study, today John may be buoyed at the clear trend of increasing numbers of new “lishes” for each successive decade since the 1950s, and the fact that nothing in the data suggests this trend is likely to falter.

Behold his venal brain bared to our gaze, / See the base thoughts which worm-like there upcrawl, / Countless and teeming from their burrow's maze; […]