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She Drowned Before I Heard the Explosion

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She Drowned Before I Heard the Explosion

Prompted Flash Fiction (Bahamas keychain, Great Dane, Tonga)

Jim Latham
Nov 23, 2022
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She Drowned Before I Heard the Explosion

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I didn’t know what it was. The noise I mean. It woke me up. I thought it was car doors slamming, hooligan kids terrorizing the trailer park. Good thing I didn’t tell anybody but Horse that.

Found out later, watching the news, a volcano exploded, erupted, whatever, in Tonga. The shock wave took nine hours to travel the ten thousand miles to Anchorage. Tha…

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