Emily heard something explode from a trunk a few yards away, at almost the same time as the report reached her ears.
He was just going over the edge when a rock ten yards away exploded ill white fire.
Just two days before, a car bomb exploded less than a mile away, killing nine people.
It rose slowly until the downdraft no longer exploded the water away to either side.
As she spoke, a tear gas canister exploded about 10 feet away.
Surf was exploding against cliffs a mere fifty feet away.
At one she rides away on the motorcycle as the house explodes.
Then suddenly, a rock a few meters away exploded.
"I hoped it would explode and go away," he said.
We broke out laughing, all the tension exploding away in an instant.