I looked up, the summer wind hot in my nostrils, playing back the last few moves in my mind. He leaned over the board, clapped me on the shoulder and rose to leave. The others waited till he had rounded the corner, then exploded in a flurry of chatter. That night I was the hero...
in the former Soviet Union. The accident happened on April 26, 1986, when things went terribly wrong during an experiment. This caused a meltdown so serious that the top of a reactor exploded into the sky. Radiation leaked into the atmosphere for more than a week. Wind carried some of th...
Supernova remnant: The Crab Nebula Exactly as the name says, this is all that remains of a star that has exploded as a supernova. (Image credit: ESO) Dark nebula: Barnard 68 A giant cloud of dust that blocks light from anything beyond it, looking like a "hole in the sky". The ...
It was a family of four, they'd escaped just far enough to avoid whatever was uprooting their home, but close enough to watch in horror as their entire livelihood ascended slowly heavenward. The youngest, a girl of some six years old held a stuffed toy in one arm, the other hooked arou...
No single explanation addresses the majority of UAP reports, points out the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the U.S. Government lead for diving in and deciphering the nature of now joined at the hip and lip lingo, UAP/UFOs. So what should happen in 2025 to move ...
and so his wisp had only caught the edge of the engine. The rapidly slowing vehicle started smoking as the electronics caused a fire at the back. Right next to the fuel tank.Oh, this is going to be beautiful. The two riders dived clear just as the fuel tank exploded, sending shrapnel...
Two summers ago, my world exploded. All my own doing. No one else’s fault. And I spent a year trying to rebuild. By last summer, things were good – I was feeling happier than I had for decades. So the three Springsteen shows I saw, with those themes of death and decay, didn’...
It's just as I told the monkey; I want nothing more than to survive.” Silence. I had believed this child to be the bane of my existence for years now, but I had somehow never quite realized how annoying he really was. A cough suddenly rose in my throat, bringing with it...
Burned.There had been a gas shortage and two brothers decided to hoard cans of gas to sell at a big profit. He lit a cigarette and the gas exploded, burning him over most of his body. After months in the Parkland burn unit he was finally discharged. He didn’t do his exercises and...
Something told me that this vision, tonight, was the hint of something terrible to come. And we would all be helpless to stop it. Chapter 20: Winter Wrap-Up Wilson's POV “He'll never be able to do it! What are you going to do about it,huhWildumb?” ...