#1 Exactly at 9:00 on a cold winter morning on a busy London street, W walked out the door of his townhouse. As he started to walk down the short flight of steps, he had a vague feeling of unease. He was forgetting

defenestrate: verb; to throw (a person or thing) out of a window. On the last few occasions the roof of his red Ford Fiesta had broken his fall, but this time he fell onto the windscreen. He heard it crack as his body dashed

It was only in the second before the club made contact with the back of his skull that he realized that they had crept up on him. He'd been squatting on the ground, trying to set light to a bundle of twigs