slinking

Once, coming down the hillside, I was stopped by a family of coyotes slinking across the trail.

The tune was the slinking “Be Cool,” its message a bit of laid-back life-coaching: “Charm ’em / Don’t alarm ’em,” Mitchell sang, her long hair in two pigtails beneath a jaunty beret, eyes twinkling behind a stylish pair of tinted glasses.

“Water,” the Johannesburg native’s smash 2023 single, is feather-light and elegant, slinking around a deft amapiano beat .

K-Ming Chang’s taut novella “Cecilia” explores the intensity of desire by slinking along the razor-thin line between love and obsession, between the desire to cuddle someone or consume them.

Undulating hills slinking off into the misty nothingness of the horizon.