I feel myself pulling back in rage and horror, dragging myself up on to my feet, gazing down at its shattered, twisted corpse, its little red and green outfit soaked through with blood and snow.
Optimists go skydiving to experience a life-affirming surge of adrenaline, but pessimists steer clear because they know they'll plummet headfirst into a flock of geese, and then their canopy won't open, and then their plane will crash-land and explode right on top of their shattered almost-corpse.
Every year, there are enough explosions and killings to generate a new packet of the familiar images the bomb-shattered corpse, the child bicycling past the burned-out car but the death toll has eased considerably.
He makes golems out of heaps of corpses, shattered railroad tracks, air, light, sound... Big Bird and Pat Nixon.
Cities were shattered, streets littered with corpses, roads choked with refugees.
But the mountain of ruins, decaying corpses and shattered power and water systems meant that while Kobani has been freed it was no longer a town in anything but name.
URUMQI, China — As this shattered regional capital sorts through the corpses from China's deadliest civil unrest in decades, another loss has become apparent: faith in the government's ability to secure the peace and quell mass disturbances.
I worked in an office once where we only had plastic cutlery, and at least three knives shattered per cake-cutting, shearing into the corpse like spears thrown into an antelope.
NATORI, Japan — Hirosato Wako stared at the ruins of his small fishing hamlet: skeletons of shattered buildings, twisted lengths of corrugated steel, corpses with their hands twisted into claws.
This is where the borders of three countries, Myanmar, Laos and Thailand, converge.But the serenity was shattered on October 5th by the sight of corpses floating downriver.
In eastern Ukraine, where hundreds of corpses, and a dozen or so planes, lay shattered in fields of wheat and sunflowers, Russian President Vladimir Putin has made clear his intention to base his legitimacy at home on defiance abroad.
