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The Cloudburst
Author: Anggin Kenari
last update Last Updated: 2023-02-26 12:07:22

Can she suppress painful memories, block them from her mind? Erase them like a rubber magically make the pencil handwriting or an ugly drawing dissapeared.. or whatever,the aim was to get rid of them till it's nomore part of her life .

It was a terrible weather .Big rain with hurricane swayed lightning.Alsava felt it's time for her to be a victim of catastrophic weather.Whether or not people found her body ..None around the city .Only people in cars moving along the city street.

She was shivering under her umbrella which was damaged by the horrible wind .She could be blown by it to . Her raincoat could nomore help her. The rainfall blurred the city .It was like late afternoon even it still a midday.

How she wishes she was under a leather blanket with smooth bedcover and a cup of hot chocolate beside the bed .The rain water hit her body and face .All her skin inside was bathed by the cold flooded water .She walked along the pavement painstakingly as the rain kept on hitting her .

She
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