Jerry Harlowe and Bill Stockton in “The Shelter”

We could throw a nice big block party, just like old times! Anything to get back to normal! Right, Bill?

Normal? ...I don't know what normal is. I thought I did once; I don't anymore.

Oh, we'll pay for all the damages, Bill.

Damages? I wonder...if any of us has any idea what those "damages" really are. Maybe one of them was finding out what we're really like when we're "normal." The kind of people we are, just underneath the skin--and I mean all of us--a lot of naked, wild animals who put such a price on staying alive that they'll claw their own neighbors to death just for the privilege! We were spared a bomb tonight, but I wonder...if we weren't destroyed even without it.