1.   Furthermore, who told the stories about whom seemed to bear some relation to the conventional pecking order.

2.   My stories from Lesbos seemed to carry a sting in the tail for both cultures.

3.   The story does not seem easy for this woman to tell, but she pushes on.

4.   Her story seemed so outlandish.

5.   The only exception is Moses and in Moses as Kirsty says, the story seems the wrong way round.

6.   Animal stories seem never to go out of style.

7.   At any rate, the story seems to lurch unnecessarily, transitions are ungainly, and the primal material would have been better served by a subtler touch.

8.   A fairy-tale story seemed to be turning dark.

9.   After all, how many times can a writer make a murdered hooker story seem fresh?

10.   But the story seems more complicated.