This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
My home is not a place, it is people.