There was a twisted length of blanket on the floor beside him, one corner of which was wrapped around his thigh.

Bare light bulbs hung on twisted lengths of flex from the exposed sockets in the blackened ceiling.

But all that lay there was a splintered peg and a twisted length of wire.

There was a hand, a piece of what looked like a flayed human shoulder, a twisted length of grayish entrails.

The ache in his joints lessened, as though a twisted length of cloth had been slackened a turn or two.

Cusps, moving at lightspeed, glittered along the twisted lengths.

She pressed her face to the bars and watched the twisted length of cloth as disx burned.

Blade saw no blood, but a twisted length of steel bar was pressing into the boy's back, trapping him in the wreckage.

A single bulb dangled above the bed on a twisted length of black wire.

He reached out a long arm and clanged a twisted length of pipe against the decking.