Suburbia 11. The fireworks of Bengtelin

When evening came, a huge crowd gathered in the park close to the Community centre. In a corner of the Municipal Sandbox stood Rune Bengthelin with a firm grip of his homemade fireworks.

This was the highlight of his life. Now he would show them what he was worth. He said:
“I will start with a firework that consists not of eight – nay – NINE rockets. They will fill the sky with a cracking and banging and will form the image of a big fountain of light!” (mer …)

Suburbia 10: A parade

And not only speeches. People were marching around the town square, and a band played music from a podium behind the Cooperation Grocer’s store. And someone waved a pennant and shouted “Hooray!”