Of the Great Lakes, Lake Michigan-Huron had the highest water levels in midsummer and Lake Superior, in early fall.

Brown, heavy clouds were drifting across the sky, and it was hard to see more than a stonecast.

A tormenting hunger shuddered through her and she wished she could put aside the power. Oh, to be as others were — blind in that safest of all blindnesses, living only the hypnoidal half-life into which birth-shock precipitated most humans.

If you hem and haw long enough, someone else will do it first.