Ambulance
By: Jehangir Saleh
Written: February 20, 2005

The tragedy lay not in the death of the trauma patient but with the driver who, after his wife left, hadn’t been doing his laundry and glanced at his mismatched socks – one brown, one black – as they turned the corner (it was still they at this point) and just before “patient” became “victim”, he realised that although no bullet wounds or third degree burns to show for it, he had died the day she left him.

The victim attracted mourning friends and family, while the driver, attending his own funeral, read a silent eulogy that lasted until the day he died.