Skyglow

By Engels Torres

Some cling to holy books as their last hope. Not Kate. She cautiously handles a suitcase. Inside, eight blocks of C-4 and what looks like a series of detonators nestled amongst the foam lining.

“This place will look like a charcoaled version of its daytime self.”

She sets the time one hour from her watch, and almost immediately an explosion’s heard.

It was thought that the bomb exploded prematurely due to amateur bomb-making skills. After investigating, policemen posited that “it could be a case where she didn’t reset the clock for Daylight Savings Time and the timer went off too soon”.