Things Slip Through
Danny screamed in drunken rage, lurching toward her, swinging the bat down.
And she squeezed the trigger once, twice, three times. Danny jerked with each blast, dropping the bat, which hit the road with a wooden clatter and rolled away. He grabbed his middle, clumsily groping at the redness spilling there, muttering, gibbering, sagging to his knees.
He quivered, then slumped face-first to the asphalt.
Ellen dropped the gun, covered her face with her hands and sat there, rocking, as Danny’s truck idled and sirens warbled down the road, coming from town.
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