Sublime

October 2, 2006, Charles Carl Roberts IV walked into an Amish schoolhouse carrying a weapon.

Death is everywhere, oppressive and beautiful.

I had atoned for the dozens of close calls that always left someone else injured or dead, while I emerged from the scenes of mayhem unscathed, pictures in hand, having committed the crime of being the lucky voyeur.

later, Eric Haney published Inside Delta Force: The Story of America’s Elite Counterterrorism Unit (Haney 2002),

But even when the fog is pointed out, we’re no better at navigating through it.

A blood gutter, Billy learned, was the shallow groove in the side of the blade of a sword or bayonet.