rum lightning

     The lightning is different from how it used to be.  It's brighter, and cuts a clearer streak in the gray-clouded sky.

     It doesn't light up the whole sky like backlighting on a stage play anymore:  it flashes and dances with very specific jags and edges and sometimes blinks like over-amped neon.

     Very weird.  (Or, as Bridget Jones would write in her Diary:  "V. weird."

     This lightning jumps out at us from behind a cloud, and disappears.  It scampers at -- well -- lightning speed, if you will....

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