Stan Carey at Sentence first:
1. A thought raced through my mind like a nasty little rodent. I wondered what she would look like with a beard. (‘The Bearded Lady’)
2. I sauntered down the concrete walk to the Ralston bungalow. With all the Venetian blinds down it looked impassive yet vulnerable, like a face with closed eyes. (‘Death by Water’)
3. Sunk in the terraced lawn behind the house was an oval pool like a wide green eye staring at the sky. (‘The Bearded Lady’)
4. There was another man floating in the water, the blotched brown swell of his stomach breaking the surface like the shell-back of a Galapagos tortoise. (‘The Bearded Lady’)
5. “Come on now, bud. You heard what Mr. Hendryx said.”
“I don’t take orders from him.”
“I do,” he said with a lopsided grin like a heat-split in a melon. (‘The Bearded Lady’)
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