True Crime

Certain women joggers listen religiously to true crime podcasts, gathering survival tips. “Okay,” they repeat to themselves, “you don’t get in the van with the serial killer.” Neighbors install window bars and door cameras for extra security when it’s the agony in their own minds they should be protecting against. It’s them and their feverish ideas, in fact, that I fear most – more than sharks or the homeless or foreign terrorists. What a period it is, a time coated in dirt and flies that, years from now, people will view with something like wonder.