Too hot to sleep, he sits opposite the large window in his room and watches the summer night pass. That's when he sees the small mote of light passing across the cloudless dark. Its tail slices the sky in two as it dives towards the horizon.
He knows, in the moment before it disappears behind the waves of the earth, what will follow. The flash. The silence. The boom.
And the world will be changed forever.
He doesn't have time to call her.
Paddy Dobson
17th June 2022