Only a vegetarian could love that face, adorned as it was with a couple of juicy cauliflower ears.
The generational difference was evident the way Bianca and her grandmother both completed their crosswords. She was using her phone, while her grandmother used the newspaper. The familial similarities shone through when they both got stuck on the same clue.
Below the 747 it appeared to Carl that the clouds above the sea were held in place by individual strings. And yet, as the plane flew above them, it failed to sever any of these strings to send the clouds on a slow, unremarkable descent into the Pacific ocean.
An errant indoor fly charges through the air, supremely confident, toward the open window, where it never fails to deviate from its path to freedom, until the very last second.
Having purchased a house next to a large pub, Danny installed vomit-proof hedges along boundary of his front yard, while also including a bottle collection bin for those patrons who had to finish their drinks before entry. He made just over $300 from the 10c bottle refunds in the first six months.
Hana Hodge reckoned that if she could learn to care as little as the old bloke at the library computer who looked up pictures of tits, she’d go far.
To the advertising executive, the sweeping plains, with rolling green hills split by occasional bubbling streams and babbling brooks, were boring and uninspired. He thought that the addition of a few billboards might at least give the motorists something to look at.
A crackle of a Mentos wrapper cut through the speaker’s monotone voice and awoke the nodding-off Ned.
Milly did not care for the cold of the snow, so she holed herself up in the cosy tavern for the three days her friends went skiing. Each evening she was kicked out by the time they’d finished and were ready to join her.
Being fond of seafood, and single, the phrase, ‘There’s plenty of fish in the sea’ caused Tony great vexation, who was well aware of the overfishing of prime stocks the world over, both in relation to fish and the dating market.
The ferocious wind had dried his clothes, that was for sure. But was it worth the death of his longtime clothes hanger, mangled on the ground like when he’d picked it off a council cleanup pile years before? Roy wept, and thought not.
Delighted, Dazza and Shazza’s kids saw the increased space between the lowest branches and the floor on their new Christmas tree and immediately began to pepper their parents with questions of whether Santa would get them bigger presents to fill it.
Though scientists had developed the ability to control the weather, that utility was quickly shut down, as society found that their main subject of small talk had been stolen away from them.
The police raided an illegal shark-fin exporter. Fin.
The vast lawn was like a medieval army, grass blades thrust skyward, though they were no match for the ride-on mower.
A brown blend of cheap merlot, vodka and beer dregs that had stewed overnight in plastic cups accepted fate and circled the drain.