Storms are scary things...

There's a storm on it's way to Okinawa, a "super typhoon" strong enough that the entire government office was let out early.

Though the real heavy winds and rain aren't expected to hit until later tonight, the winds are already enough to nearly blow my umbrella from my hands. Last year, I was trapped inside for three days while a typhoon sat on Okinawa and refused to let us out. Everything stops when that happens; the buses don't run, workplaces are closed.

They're scary, storms. You can't control them or pray them away; you can't expect one to pass you up because you're a nice person. You just sit inside and listen to your window glass shaking in its frame, threatening to crack, and hope that it doesn't.

Distopia is popular in fiction now, but how about a story totally set in a storm? We have a lot of romances and dramas that love lightning and thunder, let's go for evil creatures hiding behind each cloud.

-Elizabeth Reuter
Author, The Demon of Renaissance Drive