Glorified Josephine

It was a shaky night. 

The dawn came silently without any sign. In the blink of an eye, the darkness vanished and the sky brightened up. By the time Lin Sanjiu regained her senses, she was still standing by the door with her palm hovering over the switch. 

She stormed down the stairs and out of the house. Once she was outside, she saw that there were deep fissures running hither and thither on the street and road. Every fallen streetlight had broken into pieces and melted with the squashed vehicles into a huge pile of wasted metal. Slack-jawed, as she turned around to check her temporary abode, she realized that it, too, shared the same fate as the road and street, as there were cracks on the wall. However, the row of houses in front of her wasn't as lucky as the house behind her. The earthquake had left the row of houses in ruins. There was nothing but a pile of rubble there now.