City on the Edge by David Swinson

Author:David Swinson [Swinson, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: sort1
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2021-05-25T00:00:00+00:00

Twenty-eight

A little over a week later, the curfew was extended—this time by the Lebanese government. Roddy and I were outside at the time despite orders to stay in. I told my mother I was going to Roddy’s apartment and he told his mom he was going to mine. We heard the sky roar, looked up and saw two jets flying low, headed south. Before they were out of our sight we heard the explosions, but they seemed farther away than where the jets were. We ran inside, but not to our apartments. We went to the roof.

Blooms of smoke, like pencil-drawn mushrooms in the distant sky, appeared one after the other. Explosions quickly followed. It sounded like short bursts of thunder a couple of seconds after lightning appeared. We could see the jets. They were far away, small enough to pinch between our thumbs and index fingers.

“Those bombs look like they’re going off in the area where we were camping,” Roddy said.

“You think?” I questioned.

“Damn. Are we at war?”

“We? This isn’t our country. Why would we be at war?”

“Yeah, you’re right. Maybe Israel.”

“Yeah. Maybe.”

“My dad said we can’t go near the windows, and we’re sleeping on the floor beside our beds.”

“Yeah, us too. That’s common stuff.”

“I don’t mind it, though,” I said.

“Naw, me either. I made a tent with my blankets. Pretty cool.”

“I gotta do that too.”

“Yeah,” Roddy said.

We sat at the edge of the building behind a short wall that surrounded the roof. Every time a bomb exploded, we’d say something like wow or dang, like it was the Fourth of July.

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