When I get two or three text messages from concerned family or friends abroad in the same hour, while it could be coincidental, I check the news. New casualties, injuries from the last siren as I continued working?

I have time to write, sitting in my home shelter, door sealed as required. Twenty minutes ago, an air raid siren made that imperative.

Stuck in my safe room, impatiently awaiting the message that it’s safe to leave, but another preliminary alarm came, and another air raid siren. I planned walking to the nearby........

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