My Cardboard Balcony

Now This Is Paradise by Belinda Roddie Adam was made out of straw, and Eve wore a spine layered with brick. Together, they built a barbed wire fence around Eden to keep the snakes out, and once Adam blew away in the wind, Eve found Lilith and loved how she was forged from the finest steel.

I wanted to invite Stacey to my party, but she was sick with the flu. I wanted to invite Tracey to my party, but she had to study for a test the following Monday and couldn't be disturbed. I want to invite Lacey to my party, but she had been secretly recruited on an undercover mission to assassinate the president of some country I hadn't heard of named Satvania, and she wouldn't be back until the deed was done and "Winter had fallen across Europe." So I guess that was a valid excuse.