Flash Fiction from Darting Hall Writers

Waterloo Chaos
by Bill Mansfield

Waterloo was chaos - 'Cancelled' against every train.  When the station announcer called for 'Mr Sands' to go to Platform 8, Connie looked up in a vain effort to rise above surging fear.  She knew the code:  'Mr Sands' meant a bomb.... someone was a bomb.  OK, she thought, follow the procedure - observe, tag exits, note hiding places.  Suddenly she felt a grip, at the top of her arm.  She turned, confronted with the signature wire-rimmed glasses, so familiar from all those security videos at the Ministry.  She felt suddenly sick, as she recognised the dark eyes of the human bomb.