I’m speckled full of freckles and I’m reckless as a jackal. Jeepers!
[Image by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center]

The train had its course set in advance by blueprints and the magical doodlings of architects, engineers, and the muscle power of over a thousand immigrants transplanted here from every corner of the globe.
[Image by Marjon Kruik]

Now and forever. Never and all’s ever.
[Photo by Allie Caulfield]

He began to repeat himself, but I put my hand up to let him know that, yes, I had heard him the first time.
[Photo by Nathan Guy]

This odd superpower only revealed itself to me. Attempts at confirming its validity with other observers were to no avail.
[Photo by Matt Corey]

She laughed like running water, and turned, and left the room.
[Photo by Jo Naylor]

Omaha was in awful shape on its own demerits, so what’s the real harm, anyways?
[Photo by Stanley Zimny]

One thing could be said for the gorilla’s technique: it was efficient.
[Photo by Nathan Rupert]

I just needed the right hat and a month at the health club.
[Image by McLoughlin Bros, 1898]

Their salaries did not cover this type of hazard, so off to Mexico they went in a stolen monster jeep.
[Photo by Lin Mei]