Aphelion

I very much liked the first part, but then I thought it devolved too far into something like blood-lust. The final few lines do bring it back into order, though.

TaoPhoenix wrote:
Such is the purpose of literature. The rise of computers is locking down social mores tighter and tighter so we can't even "blow off steam" anymore. It's all dandy for a good while... until the pressure cooker overflows.

I'm not so sure about that, Tao . . . I mean, you've got people on the 'social networking' sites (and everywhere else) posting photos of their naughty bits . . . of course, they find out too late that those items wind up in their resumes and they can't get a job, but still . . . if I thought the rise of computer use was locking down anything, it would be people's privacy -- but that's their doing.

Ya know, it really sums up a day on the freeways around here.

And in saying that, you just reminded me of a movie . . . "L.A. Story," with Steve Martin -- the scene where he's driving on the L.A. freeway with someone at rush hour. I don't recall what the precipitating event was, but all at once he yells, "Gun! Gun!" and his passenger opens the glovebox and gets a pistol out, and everybody just starts shooting at each other more or less at random. Of course, that doesn't come across as road rage as much as plain craziness.