a disturbing setting
By Moristotle
Thanks to Michael H. Bernstein for another challenging beginning, which he submitted modestly as “potential.”
Your challenge is to continue the narrative begun below, revealing who “we” are and ending up...well, that’s for you to work out. Go wherever the story (and your muse) may lead you.
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Here’s Michael’s challenging beginning:
The stormy, dark clouds divided as if they were the Red Sea, and a blue spit of sky exposed its hungry teeth.To see other Story Challenge columns for their challenging beginnings, go to this column’s Story Challenge tag.
On the sixth day we woke to sweat and growling heat. Everywhere air conditioners were on high, fans ran full time, but TVs failed to connect, cell phone towers went mute, the Internet was silent, and radios played static. We made ice nonstop, hoping the cold water lines would not get any hotter than lukewarm, and no one as far as we knew turned on any lights. We prayed for no brownouts, suffered a temporary blackout, and then celebrated when the fans and air conditioners came back on.
Outside, asphalt began to blister and the land-line telephone lines began degrading. We stayed inside, hopeful.
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I hope that some writer out there, having recently suffered something like what the second paragraph of this beginning describes, is at work following his or her muse to whatever ending may await.
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