In an Instant: A Chicago story I stood staring blankly as the events unfolded before me. Fully clad in cast-off clothes; hood up, boots laced tight, a young black boy barely over five feet slid effortlessly across the hood of the sleek black Mercedes and held the petrified driver at gunpoint. "Get out da car now!" he exclaimed. With that, he kicked off the driver's side rearview mirror with his second hand leather combat boots. …showed first 75 words of 708 total…

…showed last 75 words of 708 total…was this incident just glimpse of what his life could have turned out to be? And the woman, did this instant provide her new outlook on life? Was she changed because of the experience? These questions I can mull over in my mind, and somehow, someway try to grow from witnessing such an event. Though I venture to say that the poor woman will be avoiding that neighborhood in her daily engagements from then on.