Wednesday, April 21, 2010


Heroism

His blood had popped, filling his veins with something like helium. One bullet had spit through the air so close to his ear he could feel its sharp, metallic edge on his tongue.

But just one day later they watched him wander through town like someone unaware of his surroundings, like someone whose intellect has vanished in the shock, like a mystic filled with a sudden knowledge of the universe.