fingerbone

Nothing a writer says surprises me anymore, not even if Jeff VanderMeer told me he did his first drafts while dangling naked upside from a coconut palm, writing in squid ink through the hollowed fingerbone of William S. Burroughs.

MIND MELD: Behind the Scenes...How the Hottest Short Fiction Anthologies Are Created (Part 1) 2009

The upper branches have elbows and reach for the warmth of the sun with fingerbone twigs.

365 tomorrows » 2008 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008

The third, which was deeper, contained dull beads of solder and a small brown thing that looked like a human fingerbone.

Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010

In rattled chips of slate or ash or fingerbone in smoke

9 things about oracles shweta_narayan 2009

Monotheism is like one of those stories where the great sorcerer puts all his power into a fingerbone -- and then loses the fingerbone.

The Stain of Sin Hal Duncan 2006

I points the fingerbone of scorn at those inhumanly cruel Republicans who drink puppy blood for breakfast.

Wagging fingers Sean 2005

A tall snag, looking as sere and crippled as a mummy's fingerbone, thrust up near one edge of the enclosure.

Blood Lure Barr, Nevada 2001

Thrusting up from the shadows that surrounded it like a bleached fingerbone, it was a thing of darkness and twisted ugliness, all the more horrible because once it must have been the most wonderful building in Palanthas - the ancient Tower of High Sorcery.

Time of the Twins Weis, Margaret 1988

Thrusting up from the shadows that surrounded it like a bleached fingerbone, it was a thing of darkness and twisted ugliness, all the more horrible because once it must have been the most wonderful building in Palanthas - the ancient Tower of High Sorcery.

Time of the Twins Weis, Margaret 1988

The third, which was deeper, contained dull beads of solder and a small brown thing that looked like a human fingerbone.

Neuromancer Gibson, William, 1948- 1984