I'd write a story based on the rioting in my latest fort. I wish I had taken notes so I knew who did what and when, but man, what a ride it was!
It started when a goblin ambush walked straight through my traps and started killing dwarves at the entrance. They didn't get many, perhaps four or five, before they retreated (and interestingly didn't manage to avoid the traps on the way out).
For some reason the entire fortress became instantly unhappy and over half of them started tantruming immediately. The tantrums came and went in waves, but it was usually between one and two thirds of the population. There was lots of fighting, insanity broke out in several places.
I drafted everyone who wasn't critical into the fortress guard to try to restore order, it worked a little. I especially remember one guard who for some reason took himself outside and locked himself up in chains outside the fortress (where I had my punishment chains). That proved to be a good move, because the people chained up there were largely spared from the rioting...
Eventually, as the population started to dwindle, my policy of sectioning the fortress started to pay off. I managed to get the tantrumers into pockets here and there where I let them starve to death. Some of them went berserk and destroyed the doors, getting out anyway, but for the most part it was successful.
Eventually the rioting died out with most of the population, and I was down to 25 (from 250), five of which were in chains and had been for most of the riots. (The guard who locked himself up was released by a colleague that had come to his senses, though I don't know if he survived. I hope he did.)
In the end the colony was reinforced by the baroness with consort, the hammerer, the tax collector, dungeon master, and three cheese makers. Interestingly they haven't made a single demand since they came, and I even think I saw them carrying bodies.
Another nice result was a short dress made of dwarven leather. I don't know whose skin it was made of, only that it was a peasant dead of other causes.