Quote #559 The first bullet entered and exited Ed's abdomen,

Quote #559

The first bullet entered and exited Ed's abdomen, penetrated his elbow,
reentered his body and exited his buttocks, severing a tendon there; the
second entered through the right side of his neck, missing all of the major
structures and exiting through the front; the third entered an inch to the
right of the midline of the back and below the seventh cervical vertebra,
exiting at the inner third of the left clavicle; and their impact caused him
to wonder (as the smoke cleared to reveal to him a ring of his fellow
commuters standing agog over his prostrate form just before he fell
unconscious), whether he should have talked more quietly on his cell phone
in the crowded train or perhaps stayed off of it (the train or the phone,
one or the other) altogether.

-- Ted Stroll's entry to the 2001 annual Bulwer-Lytton contest