Day of Rest
Its 9.52am. At 9.00 I got out of bed having read a Chapter of my book "How the Dead Live" by Will Self. I decided not to have a shower so I put 4 part baked croissants in the oven for my son and I and put on my Birkenstocks for my sunday mornig ritual walk to the paper shop. Rounding the corner on the end of my street I was greeted by a scene unlike any other sunday morning I remember. Vehicles covered in dayglo yellow and green; red and white tape across the road; people stading by their front gates looking on. I walked up to an onlooker.
"What happened? I said
"I don't know".
I approached the next man. He told me there had been a stabbing about 15 minutes ago - a man had walked out of the paper shopped and was stabbed in the stomach and next by a random nutter.
"What - just now!.... 15 minutes ago... did they get him?"
"I don't think so - I think someone said there was another stabbing around the corner also. It could have been me - I was on the way to the paper shop".
"Or me....."