The cannula had come askew in his nose and he pushed it straight, his hand moving slowly, like the hand of a man who is dreaming with his eyes open.

The company was one of Silicon Valley's more famous dot-com flameouts.

You smiling your oh-so-perfect smile and me with the biggest, cockiest grin on my face you can ever imagine. I would have been the cockiest man alive that night knowing you were going home with me.

This ceremony seals the covenant in the flesh of the male generative organ.