The shooting was clarifying.
It was a mass murder--one shooter at one location with more than four people dead. It was a mass murder. Elizabeth and I had planned a rendezvous at Gypsey's, but the taste of Moroccan beef and Tikka Masala turned bitter the second the first shot roared through the restaurant. I was holding her hand when the bullet entered her skull. It grazed past my right ear and burst her left eyeball before slipping into her brain. She was dead before her bloody face fell into her plate. I couldn't tell if it was blood or sauce that was misted on my face.
It was a mass murder--one shooter at one location with more than four people dead. It was a mass murder. Elizabeth and I had planned a rendezvous at Gypsey's, but the taste of Moroccan beef and Tikka Masala turned bitter the second the first shot roared through the restaurant. I was holding her hand when the bullet entered her skull. It grazed past my right ear and burst her left eyeball before slipping into her brain. She was dead before her bloody face fell into her plate. I couldn't tell if it was blood or sauce that was misted on my face.