Burial (2012)
“It was a few minutes after noon, and quite suddenly Amelia lowered her chopsticks and said, ‘Listen!’ I was chasing the world’s liveliest dead shrimp around its carton. I was never much of a hand with chopsticks: as far as I was concerned eating with chopsticks was about as sensible as apple-bobbing.
‘Listen!’ Amelia repeated; and I stopped shrimp-chasing.
‘What is it?’ ‘Can’t you hear it?’ I listened. There was nothing. ‘I don’t hear anything,’ I told her.
‘That’s the whole point,’ she said. ‘It’s so quiet. No traffic, no automobile horns, nothing at all.’ I listened again, and frowned. I put down my shrimp and went to the window and opened the blind. Amelia was right. Most of the traffic in the street outside had come to a standstill, even the buses. All around the plaza of the Citicorp building, people were standing like store-window dummies. It was truly weird, like a scene out of one of those 1950s sci-fi movies where the whole population is paralysed by an alien ray.
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