Sheer Horror

Category: Story

I will never forget the site I saw as I stood here, in the middle of the street. Both buildings were on fire, with gaping holes in them, thick black smoke emerging. The view was dead-on and I stopped for a few moments, just in shock at what I was seeing. A colleague of mine grabbed me, and said, "I cannot believe what I am seeing!"--which was exactly what I had been thinking.

Then, something in me clicked in and I KNEW that I had to get out of that area. I saw students I knew who asked me how they were going to get home. I walked a group of them up to the Manhattan Bridge on Canal Street.