“He stood on shaking legs and staggered toward what just ten seconds ago had been his home. Now it was rubble, a heap of wood and broken pipes and chunks of furniture. Shreds of paper and fabric still rained from the sky like confetti, and there was an eerie silence, as if even the breeze didn’t dare make any sound.In the center of where the Penster home had stood, the bathtub had somehow survived. On top of it was a mattress that had fallen from the second story.“No, no,” Elliot whispered. He s...at on what had once been a toilet and buried his face in his hands. The kitchen must have blown this way. He saw pieces of his mother’s dishes, half of a chair, and Reed’s large jar with his collection of leftover pickle relish in it. A crack ran down the jar where it had landed, but amazingly it hadn’t shattered.If he could have chosen the two things to have left in this world, it probably wouldn’t have been a bathtub and a jar of pickle relish. But his luck seemed to work that way lately.Then he heard a sound.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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