At first, I wasn’t afraid. I couldn’t bother myself to be upset — not any more than on the surface level.  I was shocked, of course. It wasn’t in the way anyone would have expected. I didn’t...

 He is deep in rural Iowa, or Ohio — one of those stupid four-letter states. It doesn’t really matter which. There is snow coating the ground all around him, and as he leans down to put his cigarette...