The humming continued after he had driven home and poured himself a drink to stop the shaking. It was only in the silence of his apartment that he realized the sound was coming from inside of him.
He thought at first that it was just the stress from the accident, that it would fade with time like the shaking. But instead it kept growing. Then a low vibration joined the humming. He had a feeling like something was building inside of him wherever he went – the grocery store, the employment office, the community police office to report the incident with Agnes, where the cop he talked to nodded as he listened but didn’t write anything down. It was as if there was something inside him he didn’t understand that was trying to explode, in ways he didn’t understand. He couldn’t sleep at night, and
