The Great State of Texas
The Great State of Texas.
I remember one rainstorm so intense, I couldn’t even see the sides of the road. It was spring, I lived in Virginia then, and the watery deluge was so intense I didn’t know where I was, what lane I was in, or even if I was still on the road. Finally, I had to pull over, convinced a violent crash awaited around every corner, and ended up in an abandoned strip mall in the middle of nowhere. These were the days before cellphones and GPS, so even after the deluge dies down, I still had to figure out where I was.
That incident alway stuck with me, and I used the concept in my novel The Black Seas of Infinity (available here https://tinyurl.com/2v2zdv3d) and again in a slightly different, and actually more true to the original incident, in my short story Watching the World Burn, included in my collection Down Highways in the Dark…by Demons Driven (available here https://tinyurl.com/53r4y9p4)
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A watery deluge and drining do not mix.
