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April 28, 2008

David: Coda For A Villain

I suspected the boulder on my chest had something to do with it. My new situation would take some getting used to, I thought, not intending the double meaning but smiling when I recognized it.

He thought he’d won. He thought he’d trapped me forever, with his arrogance and explosives. But I’d recently developed new perspective on “forever,” at about the time his daughter planted a bullet in my cranium.

“Forever,” ha! It might only take a few hundred years to grind these stones away against one another. Worst case, erosion would do the job, give or take a millennium.

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