A new psychosis has gripped Washington, D.C., and seems to be rapidly spreading throughout America. Teddy Bear Memorials.
People die every day.
People I've loved have died and a lot more people I didn't love have died. They die horribly and they die, mostly, in a common way. People have stopped living for a long time now, frequently due to violence, and try as I might I can't seem to blame it on any of the dull dumb things people use for entertainment, be it a Marilyn Manson record or a John Wayne movie or a computer war game they play in the dark. Here in the sketchy parts of the District of Columbia, people sometimes get shot. The economic boom doesn't matter too much in the eastern half of Washington, the areas ominously referred to as Northeast and Southeast.