The noise-cancelling headphones failed to cancel out the potent head-noise Tina was experiencing after having fallen down a deep K-hole over the weekend.
Like endless waves upon a cliff face, the brick retaining wall had over time been worn away by the pees of many dogs.
The brown husk of a leaf lied to Ingrid; as she stomped on it, it surrendered without the satisfying crunch underfoot, ruining her run and her day.
Extroverted Ian needed a rest and recharge, so that Friday night he only did a three-person dinner and a couple of post-dinner cocktails. Meanwhile, an introvert somewhere snuck past her housemate’s room so she could get a new mug of tea without triggering the need for conversation.
It was only a matter of time before the clean mullet, that revived paradox, became the centre of attention in a Fair Work case, which involved an employee allegedly fired because of his hairstyle by a conservative, balding employer.
Quinn was self-conscious about his teeth, the way they were untidy and yellowing, but when he put in his mouth-guard to play hockey, he smiled like a kid whose birthday and Christmas fell on the same day.
It was a close shave, how near Brenda had come to nicking her skin during her leg shave.
The diminutive, fluffy white dog carried proudly a stick that was four times its length, while the one that looked as though it was descended from a horse chomped excitedly at a stick the length of a child’s sandal.
Being the speed dealer he was, Iggy waltzed into the dentist already wearing the necessary glasses. This saved some time but not enough; as a frequent user of his own product he had to have eighteen fillings and three teeth removed.
Despite spending hours on the homemade pasta and the ragu, Tom didn’t get the first taste of his masterpiece. That honour went to the drawstrings of his hoodie.
Damo deployed his swear words like he deployed his grammar – regularly and to great effect.
A woman wearing a fake pregnant belly used it to cut a path through the crowd, onto the train and into a politely-offered seat, after witnessing a pregnant women do the very same the week before.
The shaggy, grassy mounds that passed Bella in her booster seat by looked to her like the bodies of sleeping giants, tucked under their earthy doonas.
Though the turbulence had passed on the flight, the turbulence in Melissa’s heart still thrummed.
The artist, who’d done the impression of the building that was now, five years down the line, completed, was disappointed as to how unlike his impression it had turned out. Then it struck him that maybe he wasn’t that great an artist.
To emulate some websites, immediately after greeting someone new, Liana would ask if they wanted to subscribe to her newsletter. When they refused, she asked if they used ad-blockers, and if they said yes then she’d walk away immediately.