"A Bullet to the Brain" is one of the best stories in light of the tastefulness with which Wolff pares Anders down to his life 's most fulfilling minute, in the milliseconds before the slug leaves his cerebrum "dragging its comet 's tail of memory and trust and ability and adoration into the marble lobby of trade." If Wolff 's story is a nearby investigation of the comet, "Here I Am," a story that inquiries the thought of death (enthusiastic and otherworldly), is a watchful investigation of its tail: recollections remembered, trusts dashed, ability maybe not used to its maximum capacity. Apparently, John 's demise by-decapitating happens, in a similarly open business space, in the story 's first section. We stay with John for another a few