6/29/2023 0 Comments Bullet in the brain short story![]() “Short stop,” the boy says, “Short’s the best position they is.”Īnders was struck by this phrase. ![]() Despite everything that he has experienced in his life, what he remembers, rather than his marriage, the birth of a child, and his achievements – is playing baseball and a phrase one of the kids said: ![]() As the bullet enters his brain, it fires off all sorts of synapses and moments of his life flash before him. There is a short story by Tobias Wolff called “Bullet in the Brain” about a man named Anders, a book critic, who is shot in the head during a bank robbery gone wrong. And yet, sometimes something – anything – a mere phrase, can arrest the attention and set the mind reeling. Certain facts, certain books, certain entire fields of study leave us unfazed, unstimulated, and generally uninterested. ![]()
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