Settings: City in the Rain; Midnight on the Farm; 1890, in the Parlor; High Noon on the River; A Spring Morning; In the Bar, After Hours; The Dusty Road; Dawn in a Foreign Place.
Mood: sinister, sick with love, full of promise, suicidal, dangerous, suspense, happy-go-lucky, lonely.
Sooooo...here be the paragraph, and you see if you can determine which I chose from each list! Leave a comment with your guess before I tell you!
Droplets made music in puddles. Singing water filled damp
air, thrusting out delight and receiving its delight thrust unceremoniously
back, leaving ripples. There was work to do: high rises and business men with
newspapers, Hyundai Sonatas honked angrily, afraid of spoiling their polish on
the wet city freeway – uncheery, all. Rain’s embodiment, wearing
mother-enforced galoshes and brown ringlets, mad the weary water smile by
leaving vanishing footprints on the drowned sidewalks and kissing the raindrops
with green eyes wide in wonder. Rain fell, surer of its task of joy, and bathed
the world in sweet dancing sorrow.
City in the rain, and ... full of promise?
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