A Biography of a Human: Refuge in Solitude
And left his pride to find the truth of existence and why he had to spill the blood of others," he went on, telling of how this lion cut off his mane in a renouncement of his ways and proceeded to abstain from meat and lived on only eight leaves from the acacia
Eye of a Needle
"Are you afraid of needles, Fran?" Fran had always vaguely hated hospitals. This must have been a fairly widespread sentiment all over Earth, she imagined. Of course, you go to the hospital because you need to, not because you want to, she told...
In Too Deep (Chapter9, Book9)
The ark was made from acacia wood, not platinum. the rails were golden so that they wouldn't rust. but other than that ... the whole false idols thing, remember? this building isn't very large, either. keep it simple-stupid and humble as hell."
R.E.S.C.U.E Chapter Two ~ The Team
At their feet, echoing the noise of their footsteps, high grade nanocarved acacia flooring. sustainably sourced, naturally.
Memoires of a Thylacine
The planet was covered with fast-growing shrubby trees, like acacias and eucalypts. grasses grew slowly underneath the sparse canopy. i lived about half-way between the equator and the north-pole.
Knight Under a Crescent Moon
Their houses were mostly wooden houses held together by hardened mud as their roofs were wood as well, for they were acacia trees split down the middle, the inside facing in.
Spaced Out
When Fran had been a kid, she'd often stare out the window aimlessly while her mom would drive. "Come in, Huston." Every new building and landscape would become a new playground in which to let her mind wander. "Houston, we lost you." She probably...
Set In Stone
* * * * * * "What does she do, exactly?" Fran's best friend's story had been about a serial killer. "She never even touches them," the jackal's best friend had started. "She just talks to them. She learns everything about their lives, their...
The Mind Killer
"Even nothing is something." (Jerry Seinfeld) [FLICK!] ['-ment, 'void,' while it's sometimes compared with the Greeks' 'aether,' is also quite distinct from it in its own way. It connects with the importance of space, silence, everything that...