Tag: alarm
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: to flee or not to flee :
Those were my options, ladies and gentlemen, not a lame reference to Hamlet’s soliloquy. I swear. You see, the fire alarm had gone off in my apartment building. That thing shrieked and wailed in a relentless high-pitched keen that went through my head like a bullet and ricocheted around my skull. Hands, which happily turned […]
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: this still isn’t goodbye :
It was a school night, that much I remember. Winter, too, or at least cold. I was sound asleep, dreaming the dreams of a third grader, when I heard my mom, ‘Lisa? I don’t want to alarm you, but the fire department is coming.’ Alarm me? Why would that alarm me? I bounced out of […]
the whirly girl 