The World of Kurt Vonnegut: Peace in Amber by Hugh Howey

Author:Hugh Howey [Howey, Hugh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-01-14T05:00:00+00:00

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We are on the dock, gazing up at the smoking building. My boss Kevin is there. And so is Andrew, the engineer. The first sign that something is wrong is Andrew’s wife running to us, shaking and crying. This is not the Leslie I know, the forever smiling, the warm and friendly. This is a wife collapsing into the arms of her husband, unable to talk, barely able to breathe.

She was in the gym on the top floor of the hotel. There was a crash. Ceiling panels rained down, lights exploding. They had run from the building, had run through the courtyard, and there were bodies—

There were bodies everywhere.

Andrew held his wife. My best friend Scott ran off to investigate. The rest of us looked up at those marching flames and that drifting smoke. Here was a thing to gawk at.

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