When the caller identified herself as from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle my heart zinged. I heard the words we had yearned for since March: They had found a donor marrow, mismatched at one antigen, that might work for Jane.

He [God] disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

The doctor percussed his chest to determine whether he had pneumonia.

...cracking an ‘inside-out’ backhand past Rahim on the set point...