More than just an appliance, the air conditioner is a memento mori. […] As summer proceeds, listen to the chorus of machines humming in the windows, outside the houses, atop the office buildings.

A lodge decides it can reach out to men from a variety of variety of nations who speak Freedonian and live in greater Washington.

The entire text is imbued with the sense of melancholy and hopelessness.

She'd never had a boyfriend or girlfriend or theyfriend, not in her entire life.