06:17
You do not hear the alarm.
There is no alarm.
For perhaps half a second, the bedroom is brighter than noon. White light floods through the curtains, sharp enough to leave the shape of the window burned into your vision after you close your eyes.
Then darkness again.
You sit up.
Your phone is dead. The clock on the wall is dead. The lights do not work.
Outside, car alarms begin screaming one
