The author's recounting of the NIU school shooting on Valentine's Day, 2008 clearly demonstrates his tremendous talent. The imagery is so vivid, it made me feel as though I experienced the incident first-hand:

The author's recounting of the NIU school shooting on Valentine's Day, 2008 clearly demonstrates his tremendous talent. The imagery is so vivid, it made me feel as though I experienced the incident first-hand:

"The scene was surreal. First the gunshots, then the screaming and the blood… and then the helicopters arrived. For some reason the sound of the helicopters hovering above us stuck in my mind. Like the shutter on a camera, their propellers sliced the frenzied motion on the ground below into still-life mementos―isolating each second one from the next. They were like a swarm of locusts feeding on the story, and we were the main course."