“red plastic rainher tears stain”
“Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.”
“A girl who could send tear-stained telegrams.”
“I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the top of the beer can.”
“Blood began to flow, at first cautiously, as if embarrassed by its appearance; a few thin red lines exploring the gravitational trajectory of its new terrain. Now it flowed faster, steadily staining her pale flesh a horrific red.”
“the redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black.”