Cloudbursts
Scratching his head, Teras looked down at the earth. Specs of green and blankets of shimmering blue made him long for the ability to touch and feel them. He…
Scratching his head, Teras looked down at the earth. Specs of green and blankets of shimmering blue made him long for the ability to touch and feel them. He…
So the blackest night is broken, shattered by the sweeping dawn. Purple clouds, a remnant token of the darkness almost gone, touch the sky like mountains…
I’m raking my yard, trying to keep from freezing from the October chill in the wind. I’m humming a tune I’ve had stuck in my head for a week and I barely…
The moon hung on the sky Just like an afterthought Half there Half not. I sat sunk into my silence Just like a stone That still That alone. Meanwhile you were…
The dull morning shed no light for the rest of the day. The gloomy clouds hung ubiquitously, forbidding any of the warmth or light the sun had to offer. The…
If painters had the colors to replicate the sky and the trees that tower high above my head, we would all stop and appreciate the painter (with his stained…
You should have seen the sky tonight. The rains had been steady all day, rinsing out the dust and thick air. After the sun fell, the sky was so deep a blue…
I will climb on the shoulders of giants, and look to the sulking sky, never such withering boredom, never such a deafening cry. I will be eagerly searching for…
Watching the clouds, Narrate their stories.. Of pure love and hate, the hist’ry of man. Float by the dragons, The demons of late. Cavemen and Kings, They’re…
Myriad colours swam above me as what seemed like liquid dispersed into numerous fragments which floated like clouds. I had never seen anything like it. Rays of…
I have never had a home. From your perspective, I live in the sky. From mine, however, I don’t just see “the world.” I see the worlds. I see all the stars; I…
He was riding his motorcycle on a bright summer day when he first saw the ineluctable. He was roaring down a lonely stretch of highway and a field of…
“Made contact against enemy drones, information in tow, require assistance!” “What is your location?” her radio chirped. “Can’t triangulate, encountered heavy…
“Direct Hit” she said, “Salvage the ruins now, we need it intact.” The soldiers ran down the hill. Noble, Sawyer, and Martin. Sarah stayed behind, surveying…
The five men took a step back on instinct, but soon recovered and raised their rifles to take aim. He raised his pistol, which in truth wasn’t his having taken…
He was looking paler and paler as more sweat poured from him to wash away the old, staining clothes that felt heavier and heavier on his body as the minutes…
He pulled a rumpled pack of cigarettes from his jacket pocket and bit one out, realizing too late that he didn’t have a lighter anymore. He willed his sore…
Luke sat down amongst the newly dead and leaned back against the crumbling stone wall, its bullet scars a testament to the recent battle. Bits of grimy plaster…
I was sitting on a beach with soft, fine sand. I didn’t know how I had ended up there. I couldn’t see any foot prints leading to or from me. It was as if I…
The sky hates the gossip he hears. All of this talk that he has holes. All of this talk that he’s sick. He’s not helping. The sky has been crying. His tears…