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Emily Wilcock

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Petrichor

Submitted to Contest #93

There was something weirdly calming about a good thunderstorm. Not the kind of storm that rolled in, grumbled a few times, and left without much fanfare. No, the kind of thunder that shakes the foundations, the lightning that illuminates the entire sky, the rain that lashes against the window so hard the glass might shatter. The kind of thunderstorm you feel in your bones hours before it arrives, the petrichor the only physical sign that something is wrong. Chaotic and powerful, and so very dangerous, yet somehow… there’s something about the...

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