Stories tagged “boom”
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Shoot me Please!
“Shoot me, Please!” I begged him. I’d even given him the gun and round thousand dollars to do it. “But why?” “Because I can’t take it any more, I want to die.” “But Jody,” he fumbled the gun a...
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But On Second Thought…
Everything went white for a moment—then as one, we turned and looked north to where the mushroom cloud was slowly rising over the city. Moments later, a hot wind stirred our clothing, no doubt carrying with it microscopic particles of death that woul...
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Zero Day
I felt, but didnt see, the shot. Just the feel of the recoil going up my arm like a sucker punch. I smelled the hot chemical stink of the burning powder, the planet-cracking BANG of the report, and the dull thump a microsecond later. I felt the hot fla...