Leaning against a twisted stick that looked as weak and fragile as he did, the youth said, "What do you want?"

There were no fingers on the twisted stick that had once been his right arm.

The riverbank provided an abundance of twisted, weathered sticks, hard and light and dry.

"I can call a rabbit," he said, poking the fire with a twisted stick of juniper.

Breastworks were going up, twisted sticks, small, very far away.

It was a broken and twisted stick of raw meat, bitten down to the bone.

The man grunted and slipped him a twisted stick of dried leaf.

He'd wrenched his knee in the wreck and clambering over this pile of twisted sticks wasn't helping one bit.

They were little more than a scatter of twisted sticks now.

He had a body like a twisted stick and a head like a pumpkin; it made Tach smile.