This is a Sad Story - Nano-fiction

If you’re thinking this is a sad story, you’re right. It can be hard to tell, in just a few words. Let’s try — you’re going on living, the hero in your own story, and suddenly, an entirely mundane email which unfortunately makes the same sound as the not mundane email you’ve been anticipating for weeks steals your attention and all the air out of your lungs. You find yourself flat on your back, everyone asking each other and your wife and your ten year old daughter what happened and what you must have been thinking when you stepped out in front of that bus.