But this potential nightmare unfolds in suburbia.

Friday afternoon, that street-corner nightmare unfolded in all its brutality when a bullet fired at a suspected drug dealer flew into Soribel's face as she played in the snow outside the hair salon where her mother works.

For those of us who protested against this war, we are seeing our worst nightmares unfold daily.

Six months ago I was getting a daily rush out of watching the nightmare unfold.

You watched with mounting disbelief as the nightmare unfolded.

Then he described how a father's worst nightmare unfolded in less than half an hour.

Instead he watched his worst nightmare of all unfold.

But with just under two minutes left in the game, Dorsett's worst nightmare unfolded.

Before him, a nightmare unfolds.

But the nightmares told to me and the nightmares seen by me unfold in their place, and I have already lingered too long in my narrative.