Thee And Me
As the force of the storm caused the house to growl slightly, he leaned up in bed and looked outside.
The sky was spitting slivers of metal upon the earth, the heavy voice of thunder becoming a vessel for his consuming imagination. If he closed his eyes, he could pretend that the storm was the clouds rolling flush against the ground. The thunder was deep utterances of night creatures, their footfalls shaking the dirt and trees in a radius of kilometers. Each hum, each creak were omens that warned something was coming, and beneath your feet you could feel the Earth shake in fear, like it too was afraid.
Lightning became the creature's dog-tongue, and rain became its lapping drool. It had a th