Bel Canto

And just like that, it was done.

It wasn't so much the ending that got to me; I had seen it coming and couldn't think there was any other way to end it. What reduced me to the mess that I am in now was that it ended abruptly, like a conversation in mid-sentence, and the feeling that there should have been something after that to soften the blow, but there wasn't.

I know that tonight, instead of leafing through the pages and wondering what would happen next, I would be seeing the same lines over and over again, hearing it like a bullet reverberating through the night.