this is a mail from a former sinisteree, sophie from new york, to you through me. please take time and read how the wtc-tragedy affected her. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "hi. my name is sophie and i live in new york. i was a memeber of sinister for a long time, but i am not any more. i really want to write something to you guys, but if i sign up now, i wont be able to write it for a long time. i was wondering if you could send this to sinister for me. i would really appreciate it. if you could just change the title, cut this part out and replace it with a note saying this is from me. Thank you so much. "My name is sophie and i go to school in tribeca, new york. My school building is two blocks (short blocks) away from the world trade center. Yesterday I watched it be hit and collapse from my 7th story Biology room. It was the scariest thing i have ever seen in my life. At first it was real cute. you know, "some drunk pilot flew into the world trade center, haha, theres a gaping steaming whole in it. cant wait til lunch when i can go out and really see it." Then when another one hit it was confusing. many of my friends had watched from outside and were shaken. my friend patrick said he had seen the plane of civilians go into it and at least ten people go flying out of the buildiing and fall to the ground, two blocks south down the street. i was in the basement when the first one fell. the world started shaking and the lights went dead. people were screaming and crying and the men with suits and badges rushed in screaming "Secret service! get to the other side of the building!" Everyone thought there was a third plane and they had fucked up and hit us instead. like how they landed early when they hit the pentagon. they slid into the side of it. if they had landed early in NY, it would have been on us. After the first one fell, they still werent letting us out of the building. They were calling names on the PA and i think it was for people whose parents were here to pick them up. if my name would have been called, i dont think i would have left. i dont think i could have. it was to unknown. if they would hit again, where they would hit. if there was anyways to get home. if the subway tunnels would be bombed. They sent me up to my biology class. it was on the 7th floor, south side, and the entire south wall was a glass window. Our bio teacher never even showed up. i figure she booked when the first plane hit. So we sat in the room, watching a giant cloud of smoke try to envelop the school, and the top of the remaining world trade center, and people leaning out, looking around, and flinging themselves throught the window. I watched at least 8 people commit suicide from the top of the world trade center before it collapsed. I walked home, back to brooklyn that day, and there were soldiers walking throught the streets with big guns, there were helicopters and airplains going through the air. While walking, someone would look at the sky, and everyone on the crowded new york street would stop walking and turn around to see whatever they were pointing at up there. I've been imagining airplane noises all night, and listening to the people crying in my head. There were too many people who were sobbing crying last night, and i could hear every one of them in my head. I dont want to go to war. i dont want to ever have to see anything like that again in my life. It was too close, and too real, and NYC it too vulnerable and delicate. I dont think i would be able to handle anything like that again. I know most of you are European, and i thought maybe you would like to know what happened on less of a newscast level, so here, thats what happened. I hope this thing is over soon, and i hope as few people as possible get involved. peace, and keep safe." -sophie tintori (spiticuss@aol.com) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+