"I think this trend started in Queens, where there were more dense areas, and it is bleeding across Long Island," he said.

He scrab- bled toward her across the floor.

His small dark eyes sat far back in their sockets, and the shadows that leaked from them bled across the rest of his face.

A red wound bled across the horizon.

"If he bleeds across the yard, we can't hide it," she gasped.

Ten minutes later Philip came out, head bowed, his fight hand bleeding across his wrist.

Three thin lines bled across his belly.

I'm bleeding across the floor for you here.

The colour bled across the grey stone and vegetation of the pit.

And sometimes there were tiny carved bodies hanging from the branches of that tree, bleeding across the gold.