Suddenly the gray flesh below his dead heart bulged and stretched as if some creature was trapped inside his body, fighting to break free.

His hard flesh stretched her lips, filling her with a power and a hunger she couldn't control.

Now the mouth closed, the flesh stretching over a rudimentary bone structure, until teeth met in a grind of white flashes.

Normally her face was rather austere, everything except the eyes small, the flesh stretched too tightly over the bones.

"Aye, there he is," growled the cook, a woman so thin it seemed she was but flesh stretched too tightly over bitter bones.

Ferguson's body stiffened; the taut flesh around his eyes stretched tiher.

His legs had gotten tangled in the frozen arms of a dead woman, the flesh over her skull stretched as tight as old leather.

He set himself, grunting, not giving way as the flesh between them stretched.