They Do The Same Things Different There (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
Later there were those keen to tell the world how they had witnessed the miracle first hand. How they’d been right on the spot when the five hundred thousand-ton structures of concrete and glass had so impossibly popped back into existence. How they felt blessed they’d been there to see it, how they’d felt chosen, how it had brought to their eyes tears of patriotic fervour. But they were lying. Some of them didn’t even know they were, they wanted so much to take their part in history. But no one had seen the Towers appear. They came back at the exact moment when everybody in the vicinity just happened to be looking in the wrong direction at the same time. In the instant of their arrival the Towers blotted out the sunlight, and the sudden shadows that they cast caused passers-by to shiver. The police cordoned off the area. The yellow tape around the buildings’ perimeter said “Crime Scene”—although there wasn’t a crime, not really, or there was, but the crime that had been committed there had happened such a long time ago and on such a scale that “crime”
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