The Cog that Spins the Wheel - 5

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Chapter 5 - Quiet Like a Bomb

When you drop a bomb, you expect the world to explode. Not that I wanted it to, really. I much preferred the steady beat of normality. The endless slide of unchanging days. I never wanted to stand on that stage and break with Blue Whale publicly. I’d dreamed of it, sure, rehearsed the speech in the shower every time I remembered how much they frustrated me. How much seeing their cans in the hands of kids on the moon made me clench my fists and teeth...