December 21, 2007 – 11:37 pm
FRIDAY, 21st December 2007
They kept the gun in their bedroom. Pointing it at her boyfriend, Chanel was disappointed to find that when she pulled the trigger it failed to go off - several times. When the reluctant bullet finally emerged, the barrel was pointing at her own thigh. At the hospital she went to to […]
December 20, 2007 – 9:22 am
THURSDAY, 20 December 2007
On the remote road, Dawn took the bend all wrong. Two hours later Manuel, fresh across the Arizona border, found Christopher wandering. The nine-year-old led him to the crushed Chevvy in the canyon, 300 feet below, where Manuel lit a fire to warm them through the night. The following day the authorities […]
December 19, 2007 – 9:11 am
WEDNESDAY, 19th December 2007
A freakish gust of wind caught Mary Olive’s shopping trolley as she was loading bags into the car. The delivery truck drove on, not realising a trolley was caught in the wheel arch, the 83-year-old’s denim purse still inside. $1,100 in notes fluttered through the streets of Montague.
December 18, 2007 – 9:47 am
TUESDAY, December 18 2007
The Wiltshire rain was heavy. Paul was driving, hoping to see the girlfriend he hadn’t kissed for six months. Just hours earlier he had returned from Iraq where he’d been serving with the 4th Rifles, but the Corsa hit an oncoming taxi and couple will never now be reunited.
December 12, 2007 – 1:21 pm
MONDAY, December 17 2007
At nine minutes past three in the morning at the corner of 64th and Greenway, Scottsdale, Arizona, Theresa the Chevron station attendant, is making herself a coffee when two men arrive to buy two packets of Skittles, soft drinks and a doughnut. “We lost our clothes,” they said, to explain their […]
