Born a Crime

cousin and filling an empty plant
pot with a huge pile of gunpowder,
when I got distracted by some Black
Cat firecrackers. The cool thing you
could do with a Black Cat was,
instead of lighting it to make it
explode, you could break it in half
and light it and it would turn into a
mini-flamethrower. I stopped
midway through building my
gunpowder pile to play with the
Black Cats and somehow dropped a
match into the pile. The whole
thing exploded, throwing a massive
ball of flame up in my face.
Mlungisi screamed, and my mom
came running into the yard in a