Like the firm handshake and looking people straight in the eye, the blazer had originally been a symbol of trust. Because of this, it had been purloined by the less-than-trustworthy and became their...

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part...

I could see the bay in the distance and where the ship should have been. Instead we found a burnt mast protruding from the waves.

Black funeral dress. Black heels. Black headband in my hair. Death has a style all it's own. I'm glad I don't have to wear it very often.

Mine, said the stone, mine is the hour. I crush the scissors, such is my power. Stronger than wishes, my power, alone. Mine, said the paper, mine are the words that smother the stone with imagined...

There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.

Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.

Soiled, forgotten coats of arms were carved above their massive doorways, and these unsettled Ted: such universal, defining symbols made meaningless by nothing more than time.

Wounds are said to emit light under certain conditions - touch them and the brightness will stay on the hands - and as candles burn Rohan thinks of each flame as an injury somewhere in his house.

the house picked up again its long, slow project of decay.

In fact, Eric said, as he went to the front door, I'd throw it away entirely. Maybe burn it. He left, closing the door behind him very quietly. I knew, as sure as I knew my name, that tomorrow he...

Yeah, I said. And I'm gonna look just like him. The black cat paused and looked me over. No you ain't baby. That cat is a prince, man. He is royalty in exile. You ain't never gonna look like that.

She was staring at us over the top of a pair of completely pointless sunglasses and her phone was playing what I now recognised as The Day the World Turned Day - Glo by X - Ray Specs.

Michael looked around the beautiful garden with its many colored flowers, fragrant lemon trees, the old statues of the gods dug from ancient ruins, other newer ones of holy saints, the rose-colored...

You see, people may tell you that Nazi Germany was built on anti-Semitism, a somewhat overzealous leader and a nation of hate-fed bigots, but it would have all come to nothing had the Germans not...

Higher and higher he climbed. His strength came from somewhere deep inside himself and also seemed to come from the outside as well. After focusing on Big Thumb for so long, it was as if the rock had...

The colour of the magpie, her father was saying, was symbolic of creation. The void, the mystery of that which had not yet taken form. Black and white, he said. Presence and absence.

Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset.

She had a chain of blue forget-me-nots tattooed around her left wrist.