Today's Word: Fuse

The brief moments before the detonation, watching the old-fashioned twine wick sputter and burn to the ordinance. His life flashes before his eyes faster than that burn rate.

So very happy to be out of the house today. The bad news, I'm at work.

Had a zombie nightmare last night, but this time around, what would usually terrify me in my waking hours aftermath has generated a brutal, little short story I'm going to nibble away at as a lark. Something to keep my brain fresh in the shadow of the bog of the novel.