Perhaps there could be another story about the loveless ways of a family that has had to adapt to something like this, a family tiptoeing through some kind of bleak aftermath.
Here she is in Everywhere I Look's first essay, Whisper and Hum, describing the collapse of a relationship as a kind of aftermath to her taking up the ukulele: Somewhere in the background of all this, my marriage crashed and my daughter grew up and left home.
It is the kind of aftermath of killing that is never celebrated in the movies or police procedurals.
But you do see that this is the aftermath of some kind of cataclysm — whether domestic or climatic — and looking through the room's makeshift door and window, you realize that it is all fake, built in a studio.
If the aftermath had been some kind of gastrointestinal problem affecting the other guests, there might have been an opening for you to make a comment.
However, as Kate Summerscale notes in this account of his crime and its aftermath, it seems more likely that he had suffered some kind of psychotic breakdown.
Some kind of periphyton".
Some kind of supermarket.
Some kind of moon unicorn?
