Hollering

Layla was screaming and hollering.

Tom was screaming and hollering.

It probably seems that way, doesn't it, when you pay attention to all the sharp elbows being thrown and people opinionating and screaming and hollering and calling each other names.

They can have no idea who I am or what I've done, but they leap to and give slapstick chase anyway, their cartoon hollerings — "Stop! Thief" — sounding in my ears as I tear up the avenue[…]