... daylight crept through the trees like an army of crafty boys.

“Soon the Mississippi night hummed by outside his windows, bug, bird, frog, the …”

“Their lives had stopped, frozen, as if in a picture, and the days were nothing …”

“He found the first skipped meals were the hardest, the hunger a hollow ache. Th…”

“Was that what childhood was? Things rushing by out a window, the trees connecte…”