Juleps

Sam's love for the level three toilets at the library could never be put into words. Given the choice between the toilets at him new faculty (which consists of refurbished dorm rooms and its accompaniments) and the one at the library, he’d rather shit at the well lit and better smelling level three toilets at the library. The other, unspoken reason being that Sam finds shitting in a premise full of books to be perversely gratifying. For Sam, company meant books, lots of books which even extended into the toilet.

Unfortunately for him one day, a really bad case of diarrhea came upon him. Urge to relieve his aching midriff won over habit and so he went into the cubicle hurriedly and without his usual companion, the long time reader was forced to become a thinker for once. The pain was excruciating, God knows how long he spent time in there staring at the grey plastic door trying to appease his aching stomach. He shat and shat for so long that even he lost the track of time and when he finally came out of the cubicle it was a relief to be on his feet again.

From the moment he stepped out of his cubicle he felt that something was different, maybe it is the air (even with air-fresheners there would always be a certain tang to the air in a toilet) which now smells of smoke and the lights that flickered a few times. Alarmed, he tried to make his way out of the toilet for he had no wish of dying in toilet in a burning building but what he found beyond the door was not what he expected to see. What used to be the 3^rd floor of the library is gone. In fact save for the toilet he is in the whole library is gone, ground to chunks of rubbles. Whatever that he was used to was no longer there. The blue skies that he was used to burns red. Mushroom clouds and gouts of fire here and there in the distance. Eerie silence accompanied the spectacular flashes and fires, as if he is seeing all this on a HD telly on mute, no booms for the explosions, no distant crackles for the balls of flame. Only dead silence.

As if suddenly realizing that Sam is watching all that with his mouth open someone spoke,

-Seems that we missed one here.

Interrupted from their enjoyment of the vast scenery of death and destruction, two beings from their great height eyed him with penetrative gaze that was unearthly. One of them grinned.

Sam whose real name is Samad retraced his steps back into his former cubicle, he felt the need to empty his stomach again.