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it was unsettling. Our school and Saint Anne’s were two of the four Catholic schools left in the city. With no public funding student tuition kept us afloat. If well-heeled parents lost confidence and pulled their kids, we’d be screwed. Dire financial straits.

Fire danced as it ripped through the back of the school bus, throwing the back door sideways, leaving it dangling by one blackened hinge.
A bite of sun through the smoke cast a wicked glow on the flames. If fire isn’t possession by the devil, then nothing is. Fire crawled without legs– a viper. Pure inhabitation of a demon force.