He staggered for a moment, then gritted his teeth, turning to face the Woodland lycan, his arms raised to block the next punch, and the next. The Woodland pack gathered close, shouting encouragement to their alpha prime.

But she went to her car and came back with a purple pharmacist's refill bottle of promethazine-codeine cough syrup. She called it Texas tea.

The clanging and groaning of the train came nearer, and it staggered slowly into the station like a prey- laden monster into its lair.

One opponent accused him of being to the left of Hubert Humphrey, which was a hard thing to say about an Arkansawyer in 1970.