The rocket was ready to fire, its round placed securely in the tube, its fuse hanging loosely from the top of the tube, its fuse lit and running evenly. The tube seemed right; the explosive seemed off. The tube, a little fiberglass wonder, was the barrel tube to our stemless mortar shell. The fuse went up to the lip of the tube, down to the middle, into the round. We all braced ourselves for the launch as the fuse went into the tube. Crack! We searched for any shrapnel and searched for anyone hurt and searched for what went wrong. We were all astonished: none of us understood. Wondered what happened, we all did. So what caused this loud explosion? We all looked for a solution, and thought, and contemplated, and found a simple answer quickly. We all knew what had happened , we all looked at one another anyway, we all thought this to be funny, yet ridiculous, the rocket was upside down.
Really! That's hilarious. Your story is beautifully crafted (except your simple sentence isn't really a simple sentence!). Great work.
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