Another slam, and a second blister grew beside the first.

Then she grew aware of the man beside her.

It was a lovely cookie bush growing from the rich soil beside the bones.

Someone had once tried to make the land grow something beside wild grasses and occasional trees.

They also seem as organic as the trees that grow beside them.

A man with two rudimentary heads growing beside his own crawled over to them.

And now, also for the first time, she could picture him growing old without her beside him.

A bottle of wine grew warm on the table beside them.

In the wild it is usually found growing beside streams and ponds.

Together they looked like a stalk of bamboo growing beside an oak tree.