Short Story: Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff

Let's read "Bullet in the Brain", a short story by Tobias Wolff and get together at Malletts Creek Library in the Rain Garden Room to discuss it.
URL
https://wordsunlimited.typepad.com/files/bullet.pdf
You might remember a movie in the 90s called "This Boy's Life" starring Robert DeNiro and a very young Leonardo DiCaprio.

Tobias Wolff (born June 19, 1945, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.) is an American writer who is primarily known for his memoirs and for his short stories, in which many voices and a wide range of emotions are skillfully depicted.
Wolff’s parents divorced when he was a child. From the age of 10, he traveled with his mother, who relocated frequently and finally settled in Seattle, Washington, where she remarried. Wolff wrote about his childhood in the 1950s, including his relationship with his abusive stepfather, in This Boy’s Life: A Memoir (1989; film 1993), which was perhaps his best-known work. His older brother, the novelist Geoffrey Wolff, was brought up by their father (an aeronautical engineer and a pathological liar) and wrote about his childhood in The Duke of Deception: Memories of My Father (1979). The brothers were reunited when Tobias was a young teenager.
Wolff served in the military as a paratrooper during the Vietnam War, after which he was educated at the University of Oxford (B.A., 1972; M.A., 1975) and Stanford University (M.A., 1978). He was appointed writer in residence at Syracuse (New York) University, where he taught from 1980 to 1997. His first published collections of short stories were In the Garden of the North American Martyrs (1981; U.K. title, Hunters in the Snow) and Back in the World (1985). Wolff also edited several anthologies of short stories, including Matters of Life and Death: New American Stories (1983), A Doctor’s Visit: Short Stories by Anton Chekhov (1988), and The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1994).