Home Fire By Kamila Shamsie Novels & Stories

When she opened her door she saw blue smoke hanging in the air. Coughing she found the big bedroom. Her mama and daddy were just lying there on the bed. She tried to move them but they didn’t wake. Like in the movies she knew this was bad. Looking at her fingers she remembered what her mama taught her. Picking up the phone looking at her fingers she dialed the police. She dragged her parents one by one from the house. The fire was crying hard and she was frightened. The firefighter helped her mama and daddy. No one listened to her about Danny.

just then Bryan managed to drag in the luggage to the front greet them while I nodded at Jasper mum to go ahead and lead us into the house I smiled cause she understands me as she leads all of us into the house, I got carried away as I walk in cause I was speechless and it kind of look strange on how good everything suddenly turns out to be some days ago he did not want and now all of a sudden he does and already bring me home to his family. The packhouse might be small and a bit old fashioned on the outside to avoid unnecessary attention but the inner side is very spacious, beautiful, and well decorated, I open my mouth in awe until Jasper closed them for me "keep them closed till I want to

His words were harsh, his tone was worse and as we rounded the corner into the boot room by the back door and saw Amie cowering under the threat of her father I saw red. “Step away.” The words were a growl and I felt Smoke pushing to the surface, my hands vibrating with the control I tried to keep a hold of. In a space this small it would be disastrous if Smoke got out, but if that was what it came to, I wouldn’t stop him, for once in my life I kind of wished I could just let go and let the beast inside me reap the terror he desired. No man should raise their hand to a woman, and certainly never to their own kin.

It wasn’t fair to drag him into her issues with them. “What happened?” he asked, genuine concern in his voice. It made her guilt deepen. “We broke up. Then, a few weeks ago, I came home and found my house on fire,” she told him. It was sort of close to the truth. She tried to keep her story as close to the truth as possible. It made her less likely to slip up. “Did you go to the police?” he asked, his dark eyes concerned for her. “Of course, but there was no definitive proof that I was in danger,” she explained. She remembered her nightmare. “The fire investigator said that I left my book on the stove and it caught fire. It happens.”

I stopped and looked around for the source of the odor and gasped. Across the street and two houses west of Amy’s shelter, a narrow brick mansion had smoke billowing from its roof. It was on fire! I pulled my phone from my pocket and took a few steps closer to the burning home to ensure I had the correct address before calling for help. That’s when I first heard pitiful coughing and a child’s frightened voice. “Help us!” the little girl called. “Please, help us! We can’t get out of the house.” The child’s panicked cries for help and her coughing tore at my heart. Where was she?

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I had asked a young man in the same ward to secretly buy it for me earlier. After getting back home, Delilah and Dakota both helped me onto the bed. While they were gone to fetch me some water from the kitchen, I dialed Elijah Santos' number. He was the head of the HOA in our area. "Mr. Santos, can you please come over to my place? I have some 'truths' I want to reveal about the fire a few days ago. I'm afraid… I'm afraid that I won't have the chance to say it again next time," I said, my voice shaky.

And she had already decided to kill. She slipped inside, with Kieran clinging behind her like a shadow. The two went straight for the room where the energy was strongest. When she pushed the door open, Anya was there, a mass of black mist clawing toward the neck of a sleeping woman on the bed. Seraphina raised two fingers and sent a small blaze of soul fire shooting forward. It struck Anya squarely. Anya shrieked and pulled back at once, then froze when she saw Seraphina and Kieran. In the next instant, she tried to flee.

I didn't live with many people around me being raised and educated at home, it even gave me a certain chill thinking about several people around me suffocating me. I would have to kill them one by one. From the corner of the kitchen I notice Cosmo watching me and I stare back at him trying to convey all the anger I'm feeling, he let me down a lot this morning, I'm sure he would have had sex with the blonde whore if I hadn't done anything. "How is your home?" I throw out the question in a cold tone of voice. "Did the fire reach many rooms?" "No, just the kitchen" he seems to think for a moment, as if he's weighing his words "Forensics is looking into what happened and it appears to have been

Then everything changed in one night. The fire started in the kitchen due to faulty wiring, the investigators said later. By the time the smoke detectors screamed us awake, flames had already consumed half the first floor. Jake got me out through the back door, both of us coughing, barefoot, in pajamas. Our parents were traveling for their anniversary, thank God, so it was just us standing on the lawn in the dark, watching firefighters battle the blaze that used to be our home. Jake’s phone rang while we waited for the all-clear to go back inside for anything salvageable.