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#221 - Mirror By elfin Someone was screaming and it wasn’t until my throat hurt that I realised it was me. All I could do was watch that yacht burn, way out in the ocean. I saw the explosion, saw the smoke, magnified through the binoculars; a flash of white, tinged in orange, then a fireball reaching to the bright, cloudless blue sky. Sonny’s pyre. I blinked like the smoke was getting in my eyes – not from this distance. Not smoke then, tears; grief hitting me like a hammer to the chest so I could barely breathe. There was nothing I could do but watch.

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