I hear the dread word: "Quicksand!" Quicksand is odd: a bed of silt becomes saturated with water so that its grains no longer cohere. Heavy objects — a cow, a log, my husband — sink readily ...

Though they had talked about the possibility of a relationship, it was the first time they had referred to each other with those words ... Something about sinking in quicksand seemed to ...

They found out it was quicksand – but not the kind of quicksand in the movies. In real life, quicksand is called supersaturated sand and people who fall into it do not sink but rather stay afloat.