Short: I Am the Storm

It won’t stop raining.

The droning din of rain fills my ears as I try to sleep.

Yet, it’s a sunny day. There is a cloud in the sky, a wispy piece of cotton drifting lazily through heaven. Why do I perpetually hear the rain? Why do I feel so cold and wet?

I am the storm.

Wherever I go, the crashing thunder echoes in my ears. I hear its deafening blasts. No one else cringes; no one else lives in this world I live in, lives in the rain.

Shivering, my stomach convulsing, I know I must make it rain if only to be sane, if only to make the world make sense.

His back is to me, and I still hold the knife.

The rain is warm.

The Hunter

The rain strikes the earth softly tearing away the ground in a growing deluge. The clouds overwhelm the sky: there is no moon nor stars, there is no light. The world is worn away in the flood. With each step they sink lower. Ahead, a dying lantern strives through the shower to burn, the light…

The Hunt

The grass lazily bowed as a passing current carried the foreshadowing scent of dust to Joshua’s bleeding nose. The grey clouds overhead smothered the sky, and all the feathered birds had hidden themselves. It was quiet; it was dark; the world was ready for a storm. A new wave of exhaustion hit the hunter, and…

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The golden sun rises over the dark earth, filling the horizon with cutting, bright blues. His breath stops. He gazes into it, his heart breaking with the dawn. I was a god, he thinks, a god born of a god. I belong to heaven, not this dark and dirty land. Day enlightened the world. The…

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