“For a brief moment, the rusted steel beams above her sparkled like stars.”

“In a brief, surreal moment, she could see the young man he used to be in his smile.”

“What a world, she thought, where you could at one moment be under a cloud and the next, right in the heart of it; and then, in another moment, soaring high above them all.”

“She looked up and saw the right angles of time above her as the clock hit three.”

“Her eyes watered until the moment became nothing more than floating colors in front of her watery eyes.”

“She kept public radio on so it sounded like someone was sitting next to her, engaging her in intriguing conversation.”

“The likeness she had been searching for was on her face the whole time.”