I Know I Should Look for Literary Pullquotes...

...but really, I just can't resist this Laurie Lynn Drummond anecdote:

I took a car door off one time because of a cockroach. I kid you not. I was in uniform. I was getting ready to go to work. This was before we had our own assigned units. I come out and my car was parked off to the side of the driveway because of my two housemates – I had a Three’s Company in reverse. I lived with two brothers. I got in and started my little Mustang. Put it in reverse, went to close the door and there was this big old cockroach on the door. I’d been down there for a couple years and I was calm. I was in uniform. I had a gun. I went to brush it off. That thing flew right down the front of my shirt, in between my breasts. And I went, ‘WHAAH!’ and the foot came off the clutch and my hands went up and smashed the cockroach and the car rolled backward, caught something, and just tore the door off. And then I had to call work. And ask for somebody to come and get me. But it was after I had stripped off my shirt and was mopping up roach guts from my – yeah.

Robert Birnbaum does, of course, eventually get her talking about writing the stories in her new collection, Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You, along with the former life as a police officer which informs those stories.