Elegy in Prose

This man I knew walked with elastic energy; a great rubbery mass of electric joy, attracted instantaneously by the illimitable, myriad forms of human behaviour and interaction, which it exploited incisively, at any moment, with an un-impinged honesty and a full exuberance.
The squat merchant ship of his body - massive dreaded tendrils swinging wildly back [...]

The Encounter, (an assignment from a creative wrtiting class)

The highway was the epitome of desolation: On either side rose up vast walls of amalgamated ice and snow that towered so high, Mike and Loretta could not see the surrounding country as they sped along. These white winter carapaces were contrasted only by the infinity of darkness, speckled with resplendent, brilliant dots [...]