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  • Returning outside, the red brake calipers behind the gray-painted alloys on our copper-colored test car just rocked.

    For the Cheerleader in Everyone Dan Neil 2011

  • The highest aerial wire, a power line with ceramic insulators, descended the last pole and burrowed itself into the earth; the lower wire led to a rusty, gray-painted metal box mounted on the pole beneath a sign instructing those in need to call for assistance.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • The highest aerial wire, a power line with ceramic insulators, descended the last pole and burrowed itself into the earth; the lower wire led to a rusty, gray-painted metal box mounted on the pole beneath a sign instructing those in need to call for assistance.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • The grooves were deceiving; splinters biting at any chance, the gray-painted wood peeling with every touch.

    Cory's Carousel 2010

  • The highest aerial wire, a power line with ceramic insulators, descended the last pole and burrowed itself into the earth; the lower wire led to a rusty, gray-painted metal box mounted on the pole beneath a sign instructing those in need to call for assistance.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • The highest aerial wire, a power line with ceramic insulators, descended the last pole and burrowed itself into the earth; the lower wire led to a rusty, gray-painted metal box mounted on the pole beneath a sign instructing those in need to call for assistance.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

  • Dian let them march her to a sterile little cell, gray-painted featureless walls and a single desk with two chairs.

    Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 14.1 of 31.1 2009

  • Dian stopped in front of a pair of gray-painted doors which bore a stairway icon and peered through the dusty glass.

    Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 8.2 of 31.1 2009

  • A squat little ship, like a shiny steel ball surrounded by scaffolding, set in a large gray-painted anonymous warehouse, windowless.

    Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 18.1 of 31.1 2009

  • The girl with no name, she was just smiling at a bright beam of sunlight on the clean gray-painted floor.

    Little Bee Chris Cleave 2008

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