If somebody had shouted at me, "Look out behind you! He's got a gun!" I would have replied with no more than a weary mumble, "Tell him to take a number and wait.

“I suppose I should have died right then from pure misery and self-pity, but if …”

“I spent the rest of the workday on routine paperwork, snarling at misplaced fil…”

“And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the nigh…”

“We were watching a sitcom, I don't remember which. There were many of them at t…”