Humans have a talent for escalation. -Death
...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.
The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.
I'm just another stupid human.
It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.
Around us I can sniff out a savagery in the noisy southern air. It knifes it's way into my nose, but I do not bleed blood. It's fear I bleed, and it gushes out over my lip. I wipe it away, in a hurry.