His fingers twisted tight in her hair, close to the scalp, and jerked her head, hard.

She opens the lock on his head, removes and places his boy-mind in a jar by the headboard, twisting the lid up tight.

She uncurled her legs, sat very straight with her busy fingers twisted tight in her lap.

They had wrinkled little noses, with nostrils twisted tight.

The plastic bags slipped over their heads, twisted tight, his hands holding them till they stopped squirming; the trunk shut and he back in school.

Her lips, which always looked almost black against the new-apple color of her skin, twisted tight, chewed against each other.