sheet-flashes

Updated: May 14, 2025

But there was one other, horrible, light far away at the distant tip of Long Island a huge ball of flame, floating upward at the tip of a column of fiery gas. As he watched, there were twinkles of unbearable brightness at the base of the pillar of fire, spreading into awesome sheet-flashes, and other fireballs soared up. Then the sound and the shock-wave of the first blast reached them.

H. Beam Piper - Day of the Moron