It didn’t even occur to me to try to bargain that I would be forever able to eat the cherry cordials. I had only been considering just the one cordial in exchange for the eye.

I once had a linguistics professor who could be described as, let’s say, Sunday School teacher sweet and proper. I’ll never forget the day she taught us about tmesis because the only example she gave, while giggling gleefully but blushing, was “fan-fucking-tastic”. What a treasure she was.

And then Darning Needle joins Stitch Marker and then ohhhh the adventures they have deep inside Couch