Derek saw that a smear of posset had appeared on the left shoulder of his jacket … He smiled softly at Charlotte and said softly, 'I've been puked on.'

The REDMAP ratfuck was done in such plain sight that Karl Rove himself announced it on the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal.

a wagon shed; a wood shed; a garden shed

She cast a speculative look upon her husband, silent and grum as if he had been thus gruffly carved out of wood.