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#112: Come Rain or Shine

From melancholy to cathartic to Singing-in-the-Rain-style joyful, rain somehow feels different every time. What’s certain is that rain often forms the backdrop to many of our human dramas — so this week’s prompts invite you to step into that downpour and let it soak you to the bones.

This week's prompts

End your story with a character standing in the rain.

Angst – 99 stories

Write a story where it’s raining men, literally or metaphorically.

Valentine's Day – 24 stories

Write a story where something magical happens when it starts to rain.

Middle School – 53 stories

The first rain of the season arrives. Write a story that begins immediately afterward.

Spring – 27 stories

Write about a character driving in the rain.

Fall – 57 stories

Stories

“Fruit of the Lemon Tree” by Bill Kemp

Submitted to Contest #112

Fruit of the Lemon Tree Anthony Pusateri was a peace-loving man. The short, stocky devout Roman Catholic lived with his family on 10 acres just outside of Palermo, Sicily. One beautiful Spring morning, Anthony’s wife, Rose, cleared the breakfast table, poured her husband a second cup of coffee, then asked, “Tell me, An-tony, what on earth will I fix for dinner?” Anthony just grunted. She gently patted the thinning hair on his head. “Dear St. Theresa,” she begged. “This is my provider? God bless the soul of a man who won’t shoot a deer or eve...

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“When The Rains Came” by Edward Savage

Submitted to Contest #112

“How many days?” asked Brian softly, staring out of the window. “What?” asked Janice. “How many days has it been?” he said louder. Janice looked across to the calendar on the wall. September was covered in red crosses. Only one square remained unmarked. “Twenty-nine days,” Janice said wearily. “Along with twenty-nine nights,” sighed Brian watching the sheeting rain add its volume to the two foot of water already cascading in a broad swift river across the mountain pasture before disappearing at the bottom of the slope. He watched as Alp...

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“Would you?” by MD Jones

Submitted to Contest #112

Cora stared out the window at the April rain filtering through the leaves of dozens of trees in the woods. She and Max drove in silence to the old estate, rain pouring onto their windshield. Max pulled up to the front door under the portico, turned to Cora and said, “you go in, I'll park the car.” Tenderly, he reached out and ran a hand through her graying hair and rested it against her face. “I don't know what I would do without you.” Cora inhaled sharply and grabbed his hand. After giving him an affectionate squeeze, she was gone. Cora ...

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“One Last Time Together” by Melinda Madrigal

Submitted to Contest #112

The Sixties, a turbulent time for the U.S. from the election of a new leader, to the Cuban Missile crisis, to the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, and the gay liberation movement, to the assassinations of John F Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr, Malcom X and Robert Kennedy. The decade is met with challenges, the U.S. overcame them all, but for one couple the sixties, especially 1968 is a year they will never forget. Sandy Correa and Danny Shea are high school sweet hearts, they lived through the first half of the sixties like anothe...

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“The Game” by Gwendolyn Cahill-Gee, Jr

Submitted to Contest #112

The Game Written by Gwendolyn Cahill “Didn’t I tell you I would never leave you, Frank, my spirit is alive. Haha! You did not know you would inherit the Game. Murder season will soon arrive. Soon I will transport you to a world unseen by many.” Frank cries, “No, don’t take my love away from me.” A male suddenly walks through the mist. “I finally caught you.” “I am Glen’s son. My name is Glen, Jr. your inheritance includes the Game.” He laughs. "Grace isn't down with the game. She's the first to die. You cannot continue to own this ...

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“Australian storm” by Rose Lind

Submitted to Contest #112

Victoria 510 new cases! New South Wales 1248 new cases! Queensland no new cases! Sweet! The trees stood tall and did not blow breeze this afternoon; to me, they do that when expecting rain. I love walking along a dirt bush path in stillness of something like a grove. I wondered, as I looked at the sky? There was a a white wadding of clouds on the horizon, broken by the many rigid tree trunks, but nothing too drastic! The tinder ground exposed a single file of marching ants to Jimmy's foraging nose. Some of them got stuck in his invasiv...

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“The hidden gem” by Yulia Ivashkova

Submitted to Contest #112

TW: drug mention, self-harm.The pager erupted with a series of short shrilling beeps. I took it out of my pocket – the night call person handed it to me in the morning with a belt holster heavily remedied with medical tape but still incurably broken. I meant to walk to the communications to get a new one but never got to it, and now, at five p.m., they were closed for the day.The screen read “Full trauma code Resus 1 bed 2.” In the few next minutes, a seriously injured person will be rolling into a large resuscitation room in the ED, short f...

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“The rain washes it all away” by Aysha A.

Submitted to Contest #112

“We’re reporting live from Arizona where countless people reported spotting an asteroid in the sky. Now we have no evidence of this but in-” “-we have an anomalous source from NASA who reports that there is an actual asteroid heading this way. They say that it’s been calculated that it would pass us harmlessly but it would be the closest an actual asteroid came to our atmosphere in decades. So be prepared to witness a phenomenal-“ “-miscalculated. The asteroid is heading our way in about 13 days. There is no need to panic, the government...

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“Alone” by Zugely Montalvo

Submitted to Contest #112

It was raining and it was night time. A girl name WeiWei was going to meet those she cared about in front a special place that was meaningful to everyone but it would be a very sad rainy night. WeiWei had a to tell them a tragic thing that would happen but before she wanted to spend a happy night time. So after a few hours, her true love and her best friend came to meet her. So WeiWei put on her happiest smile and tears away and greeted her friends. So not long, they all went to the spot that was meaning which was a long open bridge with a r...

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“When men rain...” by Katarína Krigovská

Submitted to Contest #112

There's a one day in past no one remembers... "I wish people could see that. No one is going to believe us." Miró put his camera on. "You were saying?" Tomazo smiled. His friend was always here to solve his non-existent crisis. "So, what are you going to say to our fans?" Tomazo stuttered. "We-we're about to jump from the plane, you know," When he spotted Miró, he added: ",with other members of Wackos International." Miró rolled his eyes at the nervous youngster. "Tomazo, Tomazo, what I am going to do with you? You're not scared o...

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“Arlington” by Ashley Ulery

Submitted to Contest #112

It feels unnatural to smile here, but I’m laughing aloud, mouth open to the sky. Our first visit, and we arrive at a crossroad, one to the Kennedy Gravesite and one to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He tells me how he viewed the ceremonial switch of Guards when he was in Scouts, and starts explaining the ceremony’s meaning to me, so I start walking up the hill to the left. As we approach the Tomb of the Unknown, I hear camera clicks and clucking tongues, which seems more unnatural than smiling. It’s the ceremonial switch of the Tomb G...

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“The Three Inches Beneath Him” by Nicholas Castine

Submitted to Contest #112

The first one landed with a splat face down in the drying mud. It had rained the night before, a downpour, but the skies weren’t satisfied with the damage done. The second one landed not far from the first, face up, witnessing the cloud of men falling to their deaths for a moment before he died himself. I took cover underneath the church entryway. People rushed from the sidewalks to the stores, some of them being crushed underneath falling bodies. “Why are they all men,” a boy who had taken cover next to me asked. “Hell is finall...

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“Blessing of Nereus ” by Amabel Macey

Submitted to Contest #112

An unfamiliar feeling floods my lungs and I become increasingly aware of my naked form, hugging the damp ground beneath me. I am vaguely aware that I am not alone, outlying cheers just audible amid the ringing in my ears. Panic crawls up my spine and clutches at my senses forcing me up despite my aching and uncoordinated limbs. Hundreds of fish lay rigid against the cobbled stones around me. Some are barely recognisable, reduced to puddles of soft, pink ooze on impact. For a moment I wondered how he had been so sure that I would not face the...

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“Great Expectations” by James Tweedie

Submitted to Contest #112

Cecelia Lewiston Brown was named after her mother’s great-grandmother, Cecelia Parker Lewiston, who had been a leader in both the women’s suffrage and prohibition movements. Cecelia’s parents were proud of that heritage and, even though Prohibition ended up creating more problems than it solved, they hoped that some of her namesake’s social activism would rub off on their daughter as she grew up. Four-year-old Cecelia Lewiston Brown carried the burden of her parent’s great expectations lightly. Indeed, if truth be told, her “social activis...

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“Rain Spirits” by Alex Druar

Submitted to Contest #112

Rain Spirits I was walking along a wooded trail near my home, when dark clouds started to form above my head. It started to rain through the trees, and puddles of liquid began to form at my feet. It was a good thing I remembered to bring my umbrella. A bolt of lightning fractured the sky with a burst of light, and as this happened, a glowing silhouette appeared in front of me. The figure appeared to be in the shape of my adoptive father. “Is that you dad?” I asked curiously. “Yes,” a voice replied. “What are you doing here?” I asked w...

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