Excerpt: Last Exit

–And with deft execution she ascended and pulled herself out of the row all in one motion, as if his hooked and penetrating arm had never been there to restrain her, that there existed no strength at all in them. He fell, his face implanting itself onto the rubberized gangway mat, his two front teeth absorbing all the force of impact, and lower jaw snapping closed, the rear molars pinching off the sides of his tongue like a meat cleaver, for his hands had been formerly unavailable to break anything, much less a fall...