‘Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby’ by Donald Barthelme

The importance of the title, and those first lines.

First published in his 1976 anthology, Amateurs. Recently collected in a Penguin Mini Modern Classic with the same name, 2011. Available to read here

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