<span>In And of Clay Are We Created, author Isabel Allende tells the story of a young girl stuck in a mudpit after a volcano tragedy. The narrator is the girlfriend of the man who tries unsuccessfully to save her. So I would opt for D).</span>
you need the hyphen only if the two words are functioning together as an adjective before the the noun they're describing.
Have you ever seen an animal walking sideways, across the sand?
