Tales of the Nineties: What He Does [by Alan Ziegler]

    Ralph works for EMS. He never talks about what he does.

    One night, we’re all watching the local news. The reporter describes a triple murder in the Bronx, and says, “One of the victims was dead at the scene, the other two died at the hospital.”

    “Two were dead at the scene,” Ralph says under his breath. “And the other one died in the ambulance.”