Girl On Fire

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I woke up and the world was gone.

All was silent, all was black, the darkness so complete that it was as if all light had been drained from the world.

The dust was everywhere. The air was thick with it – hot and filthy, the dust of a freshly dug grave. And a strange rain was falling – a rain made of rocks and stones, the fragments and remains of smashed and broken things that I could not name. The destruction was everywhere, in my eyes, my mouth, my nose and the back of my throat.

I was flat on my back and suddenly the devastation was choking me.

I pushed myself up, coughing up the strange dust, feeling it on my hands and my face.

I stared into the pitch-black silence and felt a stab of pure terror because for the first time I was aware of the heat. There was a great fire nearby. I looked around and suddenly I saw it, blazing and flaring, the only light in the darkness. The heat increased. The fire was getting closer.

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