Following are some of my favorite examples of model writing from The Last Child:
"Asphalt cut the country like a scar, a long hot burn of razor black" (pg.1).
"Heat had not yet twisted the air, but the driver knew it was coming, the scorching glare, the shimmer at the at the far place where blue hammered down" (pg.1).
"She looked through the window and her lenses flashed, then went dark as the road sliced into a stand of pine with shadows that pooled green beneath the limbs" (pg. 2).
"Forty minutes later, the bus rocked to a stop at a one-room gas station depot lost in the great swath of pine and scrub and hot, sandy earth" (pg. 3).
"A cool finger touched Hunt between the shoulder blades. The hospital pressed down" (pg. 413).
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