[…] Aunty Ada would base her prostitute judgment on Nia’s lipstick, a shimmery orange, and the eye shadow—similar to the shade of the lipstick—that clung to her heavy lids.

Light-thoughted Mirth grew serious, and wept

Your dad wore jorts before you did and he's got the short frayed denim to prove it.

The use of an afterstory is rarer, but it oc- curs when a first-person narrator looks at the past from the point of view of the present, stressing the distinction between his or her past and present self: …