A lorry driver was killed in a fireball crash which closed the M60 and marooned thousands of shoppers in the Trafford Centre. |
Their mother lives in a council house marooned among gentrifying neighbours. |
The marooned sailor rises, grasps a palm tree, shakes it and loosens a coconut, which conks him directly on the wound. |
In deeper, murkier pools, such as that where I overturn and become marooned with a seven foot freshy, dwell crocodiles awaiting their next meal. |
Patients are marooned on trolleys because there are no available beds even though there are plenty of beds available in private nursing homes. |
But its dreamscape reminds me as much of Cocteau's ancient figures marooned in modernity, speaking like ghosts or halfrealized human beings. |