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Disaster Girl: A Short Story

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Sirens were all that could be heard. The police car lights were the only lights in the foggy night. The stars and the moon shone dully in the sky. No lights in the neighboring houses could be seen. It was a peaceful neighborhood. Following all the commotion, everything seemed a lot calmer. A cold body was taken out of a house in the midst of the dark and cold night and onto the street. There was something that fell on the ground from the corpse – a crumpled piece of paper which read, "I am Disaster Girl.” The little old bakery hadn’t changed a bit. Same old dusty curtains hung in front of the small rear windows. The walls were clumsily painted in that warm cream color of home. In the front there was a show window just like in any other store. …show more content…

This was very unlike her. It was probably the weather. She looked outside and saw a small bird on one of the branches of a high tree near the bakery. It was very small and beautiful, with its yellow band across its breast between its black head and white belly. Its song had such a nice melody to it. It was like it almost had a calming and hypnotizing effect on its listeners. Yet again the bad thoughts came into her mind. She could see the bird freezing to death and falling straight downwards as in free fall from the tree branch. She dismissed those unpleasant thoughts. Something strange was going on – she would never think of such terrible things …show more content…

Glad to be finally somewhere safe, she hurried into the house. Walking in, she heard an airplane fly just above the house. That was very unlikely in this part of town as the airport was not anywhere close. What if it was going to crash into the bakery? The image was as clear as before – the plane would go straight into the bakery, killing and destroying everything in its range. It looked like a graveyard, with all of those corpses sprawled on the ground, which was covered in blood and flames. She pushed those thoughts to the back of her head and turned on the TV. The first thing she saw was the headline breaking news – a plane crash… Dead people, fire, sirens – it couldn’t have been

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