Bullet in the Brain

Classic short story by Tobias Wolff

Photo by benjamin hershey on Unsplash

This is a one scene short story taking place at a bank. Anders is in the bank queue waiting for service. He is a book critic who is portrayed as very disagreeable. Through his interactions with other customers in the queue, he comes across as pompous and sarcastic. The scene is interrupted by armed robbers bursting into the bank. Anders keeps up his sarcastic, mocking…