Chapter 2
In the months following the lightning strike that made Frank more of a freak, he killed several houseplants and electrocuted eleven more flies. He also blew up a popcorn maker and three toasters. The intensity of the damage seemed somewhat dependent on that of the storm, or maybe its proximity. One of the toasters burst into flames when Frank got impatient and popped the bread up early. The weather had been quite volatile at the time. But why the fly and not the telephone that first day? It hadn’t even been storming when the bug met its maker! Had Frank been touching a light switch? The electric coffee pot, maybe? Did the telephone have enough current running through it to transfer through Frank and take out the unlucky pest?
More questions came later, questions like, “Why didn
