{"sf1_id":1038802,"sf2_id":"J1OlJQ4e","title":"Mad World ch1.","author":"London79","words":211,"posted_at":"2016-07-01T02:15:00.000Z","tags":["9/11","Gay","New York","Sobbing","Straight"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1038802-mad-world-ch1","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/J1OlJQ4e","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=1038802\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":"September 11,2001 Brooklyn,New York\n\nWe watch helplessly eyes glued to the television as the flaming Wold Trade Center\n\nburns and smoke billows from the steel\u0026nbsp;I weep embracing my friend tightly knowing how horrible\n\nthe event must be and that my friends husband and my husband were there\n\nhelping I was horrified as was my friend we broke the hug and resumed watching.\n\nI phoned my husband,no answer I called again no answer I sob loudly \"its O.K,\" my friend\n\nsays comforting me \"you don't get it,\" I say \"they might\u0026nbsp;die!,\" \"look, we'll be O.K.,\" she says\n\n\"we'll be O.K.,\" \u0026nbsp;she starts to sob too, my son and daughter walk into the living room \"will daddy\n\nbe O.K.,\" they ask \"I don't \u0026nbsp;know,\" I say \"I really don't know,\" I hug my children tight.\n\nI try calling my husband again \u0026nbsp;he finally picks up \"bab-baby \\*coughing\\* I can't breathe\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"are you O.K.?,\". I ask \"No.\" he says, my friend motions for me to give the phone to her\n\nI do \"can \u0026nbsp;I speak to Josh?,\" she asks \"honey, I think I'm dying,\" Josh says \"hang on!,\"\n\nshe shouts \"we love you,\" we shout before hanging up\u0026nbsp;me,my friend and my chldern\n\nall hug. crying.\n\nTwo seconds later the towers crash to the ground.\n\n  \n  \n\n"}