Nano

The awful chitter grew, and the spreading, crawling wave moved nearer--disintegrating street, walls, Jen's Explorer and the corner where she had stood mere seconds before. The warehouse across the street began to disappear at a rapidly accelerating pace and the crawling, chittering wave of destruction ascended the posts of streetlamps and dissolved them, plunging the street into darkness. On the dirt which had been a paved street but a moment before, nothing remained; not ash, not cinder, no pool of liquid or pile of debris--nothing whatsoever to indicate that man, or car, or gun or street had ever existed. Climbing into John's gray Excursion, John and Jen raced from the scene. John drove. Glancing sideways after checking the mirror, he saw that Jen was exhibiting alarming signs of shock. "Are you all right?" he asked, to focus her attention. No reply. "Hey--" Jen began hyperventilating. What the hell was that?" she demanded.Marlow, John Robert is the author of 'Nano' with ISBN 9780765340719 and ISBN 0765340712.