He let the frustration stay in his mind, let it create a bare thread of connection between the floor and the outgoing fist.

A bare thread of whisper, but an unmistakably human voice.

Agum's voice was a bare thread of whisper: "If we'd been in there, he might have grabbed us like that."

It was only the barest thread of a whisper.

Perhaps it gave him a chance to reach the scene, a bare thread of a chance.

Under that, though, was the barest thread of something he would not-not yet-call fear.

"Lottie," Kate said, her voice a bare thread of sound.

I stepped through the living room, over the old Turkish carpet, which looked malnourished, its bare white threads exposed like ribs.

"There are a lot of families being held together by the barest thread," he said.

"Good idea," her rescuer approved in a bare thread of a whisper.