There was a flash of green light, a scream cut in half and a loud thumpo to the floor. Debris lay strewn across the room as though a storm had recently passed through. He stepped over an overturned table, ran his hand across the mantel, dusty with plaster. Under his foot glass crunched, but he paid no attention. It was a photo of a small boy, no older than one, laughing as he toddled around the yard with a girl the same age, their parents talking and laughing, as though they hadn't a care in the world. Now, all was quiet.