The stars were pinpricks of light in a clear night sky.

The shy young man gazed like a calf, blushed when she looked at him, smiled oxishly when she talked, and forgot to eat his dinner.

More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.

When our companies merged, I rewired our payment processing system to handle their invoices as well.