Visual Sentences Flashcards
I was sitting in the darkened basement of this house, in the family room, watching TV, with my cousin Diane, who was in truth—in waking life—the most beautiful woman I had ever seen.
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The television picture and sound distorted, and static filled the screen
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A newscaster suddenly interrupted the program
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My cousin stood up and went behind the TV to check the electrical cord.
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She touched it, and started convulsing and frothing at the mouth, frozen upright by intense current.
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A brilliant flash of light from a small window flooded the basement.
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I rushed upstairs.
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There was nothing left of the ground floor of the house
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It had been completely and cleanly sheared away, leaving only the floor, which now served the basement as a roof.
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Red and orange flames filled the sky, from horizon to horizon.
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Nothing was left as far as I could see, except skeletal black ruins sticking up here and there: no houses, no trees, no signs of other human beings or of any life whatsoever
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The entire town and everything that surrounded it on the flat prairie had been completely obliterated.
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It started to rain mud, heavily
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The mud blotted out everything, and left the earth brown, wet, flat and dull, and the sky leaden, even gray
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They were carrying unlabeled and dented cans of food, which contained nothing but mush and vegetables.
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