Benjamin Watts awoke in the bed he and his wife shared to discover he could not move from his neck down.

Stay with me here,
One second, 

Emelio Tartalisto dreamed of flying

The random patterns left on the ice do not trace the arc of the absent skaters.

A stark outline in the way pieces fall into place. A meandering thought. Blurry eyes, seeing through fogged lenses. 

A radical idea has a great chance of starting at one and running itself through the range of two through infinity. Most often one hundred is not reached and fifty is a common average.

You cover the ground before you with the deep purple blanket inherited from your grand aunt. You place your goods along the lines woven into the wool. There is a section for every type of ware.