sliver

Her golden eyes catch a stray sliver of moonlight, turning them silvery yellow.

It was a sliver of hope, mind you, thin as the thinnest crescent moon, but sometimes a sliver is all a person needs.

“This way,” Alexander said, and disappeared into a sliver of shadow that somehow seemed darker than the rest.

But if this little sliver of young fame has taught Isella anything, it’s that even when everyone wants a piece of you, no one is actually coming to save any of us.

He knew that, in order to protect his surviving daughter from the radiation the plant might release, he had to abandon the faint sliver of hope that one of those swept away could have survived.