Sublime

Then she stood and lifted the stool carefully off Benny, who continued to sit there, looking somewhat wobbly and exposed, like Jell-O taken too soon from the mold.

afternoon woman, sexy Sadie. You don’t want to meet someone like you too early in your life, or you won’t ever like anyone else.” “I bet you’ve said that before,” Sadie said.

Lady Duff Twysden, a character right out of a very good English novel who had lost her way. Her look was original, her chic was original, and God knows her speech and her capacity for drink were all original.

“Ruth

Tamagotchi.”

She was lucky. Not just about the crocodiles and being in one piece, but because most of the girls they used for local color died before they were thirty.

Older, larger, and unpleasantly fleshy.

ornery.