Florida Firefight
“The noise was a high-pitched whine, like bees.
Hawker incorporated the noise into his dream. In the dream he had rounded the stone corner of the barn in his birthplace of Dun Dealgan, on the moonscape coast of northeastern Ireland.
It was the dream in which his mother and three older sisters are destroyed by the bomb. The dream in which there is a yellow shock of heat and light, and the terrible ringing in a tiny boy’s ears.
His ears.
It was the dream in which the young Irish father runs scream...ing toward the smoking cottage, crying vengeance on heaven and hell, and Ulster’s Orange Order.
James Hawker had never seen his father cry before that day.
He never saw his father cry after that day.
But this time the dream was different. There was the flash of yellow as the bomb exploded, and the whack and thump as pieces of the stone cottage fell to earth. But there was no ringing in the little boy’s ears.
There was, instead, the strange whining.
Like bees … Hawker jolted upright in bed, rolling to the floor.MoreLess
Hawker incorporated the noise into his dream. In the dream he had rounded the stone corner of the barn in his birthplace of Dun Dealgan, on the moonscape coast of northeastern Ireland.
It was the dream in which his mother and three older sisters are destroyed by the bomb. The dream in which there is a yellow shock of heat and light, and the terrible ringing in a tiny boy’s ears.
His ears.
It was the dream in which the young Irish father runs scream...ing toward the smoking cottage, crying vengeance on heaven and hell, and Ulster’s Orange Order.
James Hawker had never seen his father cry before that day.
He never saw his father cry after that day.
But this time the dream was different. There was the flash of yellow as the bomb exploded, and the whack and thump as pieces of the stone cottage fell to earth. But there was no ringing in the little boy’s ears.
There was, instead, the strange whining.
Like bees … Hawker jolted upright in bed, rolling to the floor.MoreLess
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