In the Rain
Today’s post is based on a writing prompt I shared in a previous Daily Drafts & Dialogues post. Keep reading to see what I wrote, and to access more writing prompts.
What I wrote below is based on the following writing prompt: Write a scene that takes place in the rain.
In the Rain
The wind is howling around my bent frame as I try to make my way home from work, marching against the freakish perpendicular wall of rain in my path. My greasy uniform was soaked in less than five minutes, my hair is already matted to my forehead, and my flimsy umbrella is seconds away from turning inside out, permanently.
Ugh!
I trudge on through the waterlogged, abandoned streets nonetheless. What else am I supposed to do? All the shops are boarded up. Most vehicles are already underneath awnings or parked in garages. And taxis don’t operate here outside of tourist season. So, walking the ten blocks to my apartment is the only option.
Aaah!
Of all days to miss the morning forecast, it had to be the day we were to receive unusual monsoon-like weather, even for us. After dozens of mild, temperate days, squall-like conditions have finally arrived, most unwelcome.
I had been so consumed by grief the past few weeks that a literal hurricane hadn’t warranted my attention. Until now, anyway, when it was arguably too late. But life goes on whether we like it or not, I’m learning … or it doesn’t, as it were.
My umbrella snaps up, suddenly inverted, like a terrified animal about to be eaten alive.
No, no, nooooo!
Seconds later, the storm devours it whole before I can grip it tight enough to hang onto it. Just like when I lost…
Ouch!
Some flying wooden debris scrapes my arm. I hope it doesn’t leave a mark or splinters.
Ow! Ow! Ow! Argh!
The sheet of rain I’m practically crawling through at this point feels like it’s covered with tips of tiny, razor-sharp metal rods piercing the surface of my skin all at once, over and over and over again.
It feels like I’m being tortured by an angry ghost that is everywhere and nowhere all at once, yet I have no choice but to travel on through the pain…
ARGH!
My pirate-like expletives aren’t fully audible, but I can feel them in my chest, which helps a little. I wouldn’t dare open my mouth wide enough to let them out into the surrounding uproar regardless, because I could drown.
I want to cry. No, I want to sob. But the deluge pummeling my body distracts my mind and heart.
WHYYY ME? I scream internally, ceaselessly, repeatedly, as I carry on…
Until I see the duckling.
Oh, no!
I’m at the corner of my apartment building when I see the baby creature fighting a current near a storm drain.
Poor baby!
Its feet are wild, its attention is focused on survival, and I can tell by the movements of its beak that it’s wailing to live, desperate for someone or something to hear it in the encircling turmoil. It’s waiting for someone like me to …
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© All Rights Reserved by K.E. Creighton; Creighton’s Compositions LLC. The above work is a piece of fiction. While, as in all fiction, the literary perceptions and insights are based on experience, all names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
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Today’s Writing Prompt
Writing Prompt: “You’re so mean.”
Write a scene in which someone says, “You’re so mean.”
Writing Tip
Before you begin writing, consider: Who says this? Why? And to whom?
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