front-porch

• “In this case, the front-porch interview isn't going very far; she just doesn't know that much about the man.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'Can You Tell Me a Little About Your Ex-Husband?'

• “His songs are more rickety than rocking, bluesy front-porch shuffles that have more in common with the deranged roots-punk of the Gibson Bros. than most amped-up garage acts.”

  The Washington Post: Really quick spins: Garage rock edition with John Wesley Coleman, Limes, Spider Bags, Last Year's Men and the Parting Gifts

• “Their faces relaxed again, the smaller Miss Moses's into her sweet front-porch smile, the larger's into her own, which I decided was indeed just a little bit smug.”

  Fictionaut: "The Misses Moses," from my collection Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives (Norton 2010)

• “Nashville's planning code allows home-based businesses as long as no customers come to the house — a rule that is causing problems for front-porch barbers and others.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Rise in Home-Based Businesses Tests Neighborliness

• “Well, you might think it's distinctly American, maybe a front-porch performance at the foot of the Appalachians.”

  NPR: Mumford And Sons: Foot-Stomping British Folk

• “Cee Cee steered them to the concrete front-porch steps, where they sat close to but separated from the loud group gathered in the drive.”

  Simon & Schuster: Captured by Moonlight

• “He would have walked me to my front door and then kissed me under the front-porch light.”

  Simon & Schuster: mostly good girls

• ““I was seven, and I remember sitting on the front-porch steps that whole last night, covering my ears to block out his screaming.””

  Simon & Schuster: Dragon Warrior

• “The houses in this middle-class, master-planned neighborhood 20 miles outside Denver evoke the front-porch intimacy of a small town.”

  The Washington Post: Loyalties shift in vote-rich suburbs

• “And the quiet allows her to feel what she calls “the evidence of things unseen,” the way her front-porch swing moves rhythmically on breezeless days, the scent of cooking when there are no pots on the stove, the whispers that seem to hum just beneath the cicadas at night.”

  Simon & Schuster: One Big Table

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