Pamela Huber: Your own weight wraps you in his arms. You can lean against his metal chest. Sink in. Those in line behind you will wait as you rest here, for as long as you need.
 
Mick Parsons: There was an early theory that the missing person had something to do with the deaths, but since no evidence of such a person was ever found, the unidentifiable resident was chalked up to a statistical error.
 
Justin Hollis: I am just sitting down to my Sunday stack of strawberry pancakes when a moose wanders into the kitchen. It comes right up the table. I offer it a pancake.
 
Barry Charman: “Too many, doesn't work. What about leaves, not so many of them, right?” A red leaf washed past in a trickle of floodwater. Looking at it tugged at a man's reason. How long had it been fall now?