Check out the opening lines of HERTZ:
Smoke. Flames. Sirens.
Godzilla-sized trouble.
Cleaning-toilets-’til-I’m-a-hundred trouble.
No allowance in this millennium trouble.
From half-way down our puny cul-de-sac,
sparks spit and crack.
Smoke huffs and puffs.
Orange flames flick.
In and out of a window.
My window.
The caveman fight-or-flight thing
floods my blood.
But I don’t move.
I’m grounded.
Likely grounded for life.
HERTZ GETS FUSED will publish on May 15, 2023.
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