dot n.— «Trudeau surveyed Brian’s intact arm. “You’ve got dots.” “Yeah.” Dots are soldier-speak for little beads of shrapnel buried under the skin. Sometimes they take a lifetime to work their way back to the...
harvest figure n.— «Now the art of making scarecrows has found its way back to the city with a suburban revival. The citified cousins are called harvest figures. Their components are more Michael’s than makeshift, and they are cute...
desireway n.— «Someone told me a while back about desireways, a term coined by a landscaper way back when. Pathways are paved, say, through a campus park, usually forming square shapes in the land like regular roads, meant to bring you...