/lit/ - Literature

>>14036715
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>"He did close his eyes. He closed his eyes and he turned his head and he raised one hand to fend away what could not be fended away. ____ shot him in the face. Everything that ***** had ever known or thought or loved drained slowly down the wall behind him. His mother's face, his First Communion, women he had known. The faces of men as they died on their knees before him. The body of a child dead in the roadside ravine in an another country. he lay half headless on the bed with his arms outflung, most of his right hand missing. ____ rose and picked up the empty casing off the rug and blew into it and put it in his pocket and looked at his watch. The new day was still a minute away."