Word: swollen
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...some overly-cautious, very nervous, pregnant lady comes into the doctor wondering and terrified at being able to see her babies elbow pass across the inside of her stomach. But that does not mean it’s a good idea to announce, “It could be swollen glands, and that points to herpes, so, expect a stillbirth...
...your supply, you must return to the government the same number of sheets. Now go to sleep. Lie with your head toward the door. That's the regulation.'' I didn't want to touch the dust-covered bed. But I needed to lie down, as my legs were badly swollen. I pulled the bed away from the dirty wall and wiped it with the toilet paper. But the dirt was so deeply ingrained that I could remove only the loose dust. Then I lay down anyhow and closed my eyes. The naked bulb hanging from the center of the cell...
...other ways to bring you to your senses.'' The female guard gave my prostrate body a hard kick as they left the cell and locked the door behind them. Slowly I brought my left arm forward and looked at my hand. It was horrible to contemplate. Both hands were swollen to enormous size. The swelling extended to my elbows. Around my wrists where the handcuffs had cut into my flesh, blood and pus continue to ooze out of the wounds. My nails were purple and felt as if they were going to fall off. I touched the back of each...
...taste in lyrics, so tracks like The Firefly's Song ("I don't want you like I used to/ This old man wants you more") feel honest, especially when sung in his regal baritone. Fellow minimalist Alison Krauss produces, and bans take-it-up-a-notch! key changes and swollen strings. What's left is something worthy of a really good antonym...
...guests and a hundred plastic cups, sticky to the touch and scattered among discarded hoodies and a pair of high black heels. Fist pumps and throaty grunts often accompanied the pronouncement of these ragers, linking a sort of primitive energy with potentially ruckus festivities. During the morning-after recap, swollen-eyed revelers regularly utilized their contemporary vocabulary. Over plates of Sunday hash-browns and brunch quesadillas, they would tout the greatest rager of them all, the man who did not go gently into that good night, the one who “raged” very very hard against...