Here in this place where she had so often hidden it was not the memories of school that flooded in but the interstitial times, the daylong flights to and from.

Around the table the women of the admin pool talked about the engineers, their primary antagonists as well as the main source of frisson in the office

For Texas, there was something sleek and slightly fey about him, what she and her college roommates might have called metrosexual in years past.

expelled plumes of what looked like steam into the crisp December air, a respite after the somnolent heat of fall.