21.  A dozen cemetery companies have sniffed around Hollywood Memorial and then walked away.

22.  A fat man in a white singlet barged in, then barged out again.

23.  A few chuckles and snatches of song could be heard drifting across the sea of sheep, then silence.

24.  A few hundred steps down a gorge, then up the precipitous rock wall.

25.  A few moments later Merrill heard his car start, then roar away into the night.

26.  A few more skulls and monsters groaned their way into visibility and then sank back gratefully into unemployment.

27.  A few shingles were loosened enough by the wind to move and then bond down out of position once it warmed up.

28.  A few snowflakes fell toward the ground, then blew upward with the next gust of wind.

29.  A few spurts of milk then the thing was at the teat end again, a pinkish-white object peeping through the orifice.