When the excited newscaster announced that a meteorite would crash in the small town where he lived, he resignedly went outside and stood in the driveway, scanning the heavens and awaiting the inevitable.
He was plagued by the fear of heavy things--large, deadly things which fell upon him. Once a safe fell from forty feet and missed him by scant inches; and another time he was fishing underneath a bridge span that collapsed, and only his fast reflexes had kept him from a premature burial. Frequently in dreams cars, houses, airplanes, and other heavy objects smashed him into Oblivion.
When the excited newscaster announced that a meteorite would crash in the small town where he lived, he resignedly went outside and stood in the driveway, scanning the heavens and awaiting the inevitable. Comments are closed.
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