Quakes!

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It was just before dawn. Bill Estay was home in his third-floor apartment, taking a show. The bar of soap squirted out of his hand and plopped into the tub. Bill breached won to pick it up, suddenly; the tub started swinging back and forth like a rowboat in a storm! Bill grabbed onto the shower curtain, but it tore. He was thrown sideways out the bathroom door and landed on his piano is the living room. He could hear dishes crashing in the kitchen, pictures fell off the wall. Books shot out of the bookcase. " Dear Go in heave. " bill thought.       " It's an earthquake! " then the floor began tilt. Everything in the room went sliding toward the front wall. Bill jumped off the piano and scrambled back up to the bathroom he gabbed hold of the door frame. All his furniture was now piled under the living room window. Suddenly, there was a loud ripping sound. Plaster dropped from the ceiling. The windows shattered. Bill coule not belive his eyes. The entire front wall fell off the building, and his furniture thundered into the parking lot below. A cloud of plaster dust made bill cough and gag. His eyes stung. His heart thumped madly. After a few minutes, the air cleared. In the dim light, Bill could see his whole neighborhood. It looked like a giant toy box dumped on its side. Hundreds of car alarms were going off. Then came the wail of sirens and the thup-thup-thup of helicopters circling overhead.

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