Slade was voted most likely to become a serial killer and he didn't disappoint his schoolmates.

He woke up the morning after the riot, recalled his role in the violence, grabbed a broom and headed outside to help clean up.

When the dogs turned against us, loyal no longer after learning of how we had treated their porcine brothers, we knew our end would come before too long.

As he grew older Abe often confused his own memories with those of old Westerns he watched avidly as a child.

"Everyone expected that the tragedy surrounding my early childhood would guarantee I'd have some kind of stellar rise to success, but things only got worse," he laughed bitterly, then rolled over to face the cell's back wall.

The senator's fall came suddenly, but with enough money and back-patting he knew he'd have a second act.

We laughed and derided him until, like a cornered animal, he struck out in a bloody attempt at self-preservation.