Let him kill me, auction off or sacrifice my essential organs, and crush my corpse under cars, I think.

NEWYORKER: Baptizing the Gun

All I could think was that the gun in my face could go off if the policeman slipped, and it would kill me.

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He said his father had died, a sentence that required us my mother, my brother, and me to invent a whole human in one second and kill him off the next.

NEWYORKER: Hanwell Senior