"Vivek, how's Bart's neural activity going?" asked the fat man who wore glasses and had a thin beard around his mouth, giving the impression of dirt created by oily hands rubbing against shiny skin. He barely finished his question when he alerted her

I look at the rope and the little body falls, horrifying howl, I hold her in my arms, we both lie down, it's raining on us, it's raining. Slowly, very slowly, the rapture grows fainter, the noise goes away, goes away, it's far away now, far away... I'm looking, it appears like a flash... light... light...

The subway was full of headset-wearing corporate people staring blankly, trying to ignore each other. After two stations a seat becomes available, which Ruxandra takes immediately, fitting her bag between her legs. Robert kept his iPod in his right pocket

Onesa laughed heartily, while uncle Sile told, laughing himself, how he had proposed to a gypsy woman to guess his fortune, and she had set off a flood of swearing, and to stop it, the armed intervention of the bulibasha had been needed