He kicked her, punched and abused her until he was tired and Susan was a bloody crumpled mess.

"God," Adrienne said when they stopped for coffee and she took a good look at the crumpled mess that was the rear of the Stratus.

The duvet was a crumpled mess below him.

The bicycle was a crumpled mess.

Alex glanced at the despised jacket, which had joined the crumpled mess of clothes on the floor.

The runaway fighter sprawled over it in a collapsed and crumpled mess.

The synagogue itself, a 20-year-old prefabricated one-story building frequented by 600 familes, was a crumpled mess of girders, concrete and corrugated iron today.

The weapon on top of the vessel was also a crumpled mess.

What Esmay saw instead was a crumpled mess, the shiny glint of fused and melted skin where it should have been (as the undamaged hull was) matte black.

The creature pressed money on her, a crumpled mess of notes.