About today's writing prompt genre: Take the following story aspect and work it into a piece, whether poetry or prose, whether you explore what led up to this place in the story, it begins with the thread, or the thread is merely a tiny aspect of the story that has crystallized around the original image. However you choose to write it, use the following as a jumping off point.
Today's thread is...
Tell us about the firework accident.
Take whichever tact you want, whether an innocent encounter with black cats as a kid, a more serious childhood accident, or you can go for high stakes and it could be an accident at a firework factory that sets off 2.5 million individual fireworks. Or whatever you want. Just get all Fourth of July on us.