there was some kind of heavy metal implement beating on the side of his truck and then footsteps were thumping into the load bed and a loud nasal voice was screaming stay still stay still and then a shotgun fired into the roof above his back with a pulverizing blast in the closed space and the voice yelled stay still stay still again and the shotgun crunch-crunched ready for the next round and hot spent buckshot pattered down on him and wormy sawdust drifted off the damaged boards above him and settled all around him like fine khaki snow .