21,700 Words and Teaser Sentence of the Week

Chapter Eight is the way I want it to be.

And I normally don't approve of one sentence "zinger" paragraphs that understate some shocking thing for effect. BUT - you need to use every tool in the toolbox, so here's one of those!

"The four-thousand pound bomb that had smashed a piece of masonry into Greta Hahn’s head was of a type nicknamed 'cookies' by the RAF crews, and the Hahns had just been subjected to a process the Allies described as 'dehousing.'"