Since the stabbing she had struggled most with aphenphosmphobia, a morbid fear of physical contact with other human beings.

Ballybogoin's Ulster unionists and Irish nationalists, despite that they had been mired in political violence for nearly thirty years and appear to possess identities that correspond to those made in their seventeenth-century encounters, negotiated their identities through everyday practices in the varied social spaces they occupied.

In the hard glare of the Searchlight, which had been manned by Seaman 2nd class Evans W. Watkins, the rock had the unearthly look of a miniature satellite in space.

Mal could tell too, just looking at those goons, that they stirred shit day in and day out.