Overnight, calls for inspections, smoke alarm installations and school presentations stopped as nature began playing a cruel game of tumbling towers with city skyscrapers and apartment blocks, using the increasing death toll as its score card.

Akeem Balogun

This week on Litro Lab podcast, we have a disturbing piece of flash fiction with dystopian hints. A terrible storm unleashes and it doesn’t seem to weaken with the pass of days and weeks. It becomes a disaster of biblical proportions that reminds of our current pandemic. There are many ways people can react to tragedy and uncertainty. But is it possible that some of them might even welcome it?

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About Akeem Balogun

Akeem Balogun is a writer based in Sheffield, UK, whose fiction has appeared in publications such as Pomme Journal and Now Then Magazine. He has also collaborated with the likes of Found Fiction and Festival of the Mind to create project themed stories. His debut collection of stories, The Storm, is available from Okapi Books. You can find out more about him at writtengallery.com

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