The air lay still and putrid, festering beneath a boiling sky.
No one breathed.
No one was left to breathe.
Who, then, would ever determine if the break-in was illegal;
or, if the existence of a biological warfare facility was?
No one.
©2021 Chel Owens
In response to Deb’s 42 Words #6: Crime.
Chel Owens 