Writing :: Introduction to Bombs, 101

Or Lochim and Laiven might be busy sabotaging a mill, as you do on a Sunday afternoon when no other diversion presents itself. “Quick, drop some bags of flour from the loft!” he’d cry. “It’ll create an explosive dust that we can use to blow this building right out of the water!”

“How do you know?” Laiven would ask.

“Because it’s one of the stock how-to-create-an-explosion-without-explosives plot tropes in fantasy novels,” Lochim would reply. “And, also, because I worked in a mill one summer and the miller told me about his uncle’s friend’s neighbor’s sister, who had a cousin who once died tragically in a flour-dust explosion.”

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Categories: Prose, NaNoWriMo 2006