Of the Great Lakes, Lake Michigan-Huron had the highest water levels in midsummer and Lake Superior, in early fall.

If you hem and haw long enough, someone else will do it first.

Brown, heavy clouds were drifting across the sky, and it was hard to see more than a stonecast.

A tormenting hunger shuddered through her and she wished she could put aside the power. Oh, to be as others were — blind in that safest of all blindnesses, living only the hypnoidal half-life into which birth-shock precipitated most humans.