Their skin was the real giveaway: again and again it turned out to be fattier and softer than average and therefore warmer.

The fish, which scales, fins and tail are very carefully rendered, opens deeply his teethly mouth.

Herman Stowell King, a long-time gafiate (we first met in the 60s) and collector, turned up in the local Sunday paper with a well-written review of Whitley Streiber's The Forbidden Zone.

He praised her glowingly; it was enough to make her blush.