intense - possessing or displaying a distinctive aspect into a heightened diploma; "intense heat"; "intensive anxiousness"; "powerful want"; "intense emotion"; "the skunk's intensive acrid odor"; "rigorous agony"; "enemy fire was e

It came sudden, like gunfire after too long a silence. Lights flipped on. Roaches ran. The kind of moment you don’t see coming but feel in your bones three days before it hits. When the air grows heavy and the coffee tastes wrong. That’s how you know. They thought no one would notice.