RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist#WordWeavers 2026.04.09 —One of your characters is seeing something unbelievable. What is it & why are they seeing it?
Well, it isn't until later in the story that Bolt learns "what it is," so I won't tell you, though realistically someone more worldly than her might have known, but she doesn't. She hears a loud boom downtown; tracking it down, she finds that a five story tall circle of absolute darkness—blackness that absorbs all light framed in blue continuous lightning—has appeared across Chestnut Blvd, wedged between two tall buildings, cracking brick and cutting into the pavement, snarling traffic as it crackles and pops and stinks of ozone. It has no thickness, like gossamer fabric. She attributes it to some egghead daemon messing up a miracle.
She doesn't notice people are annoyed more than frightened.
Why is she seeing it? (Other than the obvious of her having sought out the cause of the boom?) She'd have to ask the three people she sees running from inside it.
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