This here was completely random. I have NO idea where it came from. Really.

Also, I illustrated it. The best picture, and also the most disturbing, is a silhouette of the body beginning to contort.

Aren’t I such a non-stomach-turning person?

A Single Flash

The Story of a Victim of a Nuclear Blast

She was walking down the street with a spring in her step. The birds were singing, a breeze was blowing, and the doctors had announced that she was finally pregnant with her beloved husband’s child. All seemed right in the world.

She saw the plane. It was flying fast, as if it was fleeing from something. An object fell from its belly, and then the little jet disappeared. The strange object fell to earth, looking so very harmless, but a sick feeling of dread rose in her stomach. Why?...

Then it disappeared from sight among the houses of a nearby street, and what happened next took only a half-second, at most.

She saw a bright light, searing her eyes, before most of her senses shut down and she could no longer see or hear or smell or taste. She was burning, a scream was about to tear from her lips, she could feel her body starting to contort in agony and something else, and then—

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