(Mixed phrases)

Faith's eyes felt heavy, as if her lids had been glued shut while she slept. Full consciousness returned slowly and she lay perfectly still, keeping her eyes closed, frustrated by the fleeting sense that something terrible had just occurred.


why could she never seems to remember her dreams? They danced away the moment her eyes opened, remaining just beyond where she could catch them again, leaving behind only a mood or a confusing snippet. try as she would to recapture the details, they always remained lost.


High above the windblown city, a drop of falling rain was caught by an icy blast and puffed into a feathery flare of snow.


All of nineteen years old, but with a hopeless weariness that made him seem many years older.


The well-dressed men and women in the city were skilled in looking the other way when they came across a derelict bit of humanity.


image dredged up from his own troubled mind.


Answered the destitute young men still clearing the tears from his eyes.

Asked in an undisguised attempt to change the subject.

A car horn was suddenly silenced by a crunch of metal, followed by angry incomprehensible voices.(collided)

His ruddy face turned a deep shade of crimson.