 "Two Minutes Forty-five Seconds" is a very short story in "high-tech horror" vein.It was published in OMNI Magazine in April 1988.It concerns an engineer of explosives who, through remorse over bowing to his co-workers' blithe dismissal of technical glitches and thereby contributing to a thinly-fictionalized Challenger Incident, places explosives on the plane carrying himself and the culpable co-workers, thus killing them and committing suicide.