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This summer, we rescued a panini press from our apartment building’s free table — one of those liminal spaces where abandoned houseplants and half-burned candles go to live out their second lives.

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025

Most of what she discovered were half-burned pages from books that had flown out of burning houses.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2025

Auchincloss has a ball-shaped candle that she lights, and she likes how, when half-burned, it looks like “a Jacuzzi of wax.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 31, 2021

The dead trees, still standing, would decompose more slowly, reducing nutrient pulses—at the cost of making some islets look like sand ashtrays filled with giant half-burned match sticks.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 27, 2020

Ben, old, grey, and portly, with his lined face and half-burned eyebrows.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss